Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 50, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 11:49 AM CDT for Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2003, 11:49 AM CDT (16:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2003, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Franklin County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:35 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 575 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 604 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
808 WFUS54 KOHX 051649 TORBNA TNC051-103-127-051730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1145 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WINCHESTER EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE MOORE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG * UNTIL 1230 PM CDT * AT 1142 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY...ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LYNCHBURG AT 1205 PM CDT ESTILL SPRINGS AT 1215 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO A BASEMENT...AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. && LAT...LON 3529 8668 3516 8667 3510 8602 3535 8630 $$ BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 42 min |
| May 4, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 31 min |
| May 4, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 60 min |
| May 4, 11:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 16 min |
| May 4, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 43 min |
| May 4, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 36 min |
| May 5, 12:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 63 min |
| May 5, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 44 min |
| May 5, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 25 min |
| May 5, 12:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 38 min |
| May 5, 12:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Perry | 39 min |
| May 5, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston | 46 min |
| May 5, 12:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 56 min |
| May 5, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 20 min |
| May 5, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 41 min |
| May 5, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 34 min |
| May 5, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 20 min |
| May 5, 1:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 24 min |
| May 5, 1:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 35 min |
| May 5, 1:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 28 min |
| May 5, 1:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 31 min |
| May 5, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 28 min |
| May 5, 1:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 46 min |
| May 5, 2:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 28 min |
| May 5, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 35 min |
| May 5, 2:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 40 min |
| May 5, 2:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 24 min |
| May 5, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Trousdale | 44 min |
| May 5, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman | 48 min |
| May 5, 2:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 29 min |
| May 5, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 42 min |
| May 5, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 31 min |
| May 5, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 45 min |
| May 5, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 5, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury | 44 min |
| May 5, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 34 min |
| May 5, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 48 min |
| May 5, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Wilson | 32 min |
| May 5, 3:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Putnam | 42 min |
| May 5, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 29 min |
| May 5, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee | 50 min |
| May 5, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 48 min |
| May 5, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lincoln | 41 min |
| May 5, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 52 min |
| May 5, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 33 min |
| May 5, 4:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 47 min |
| May 5, 4:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland, White | 3 hr |
| May 5, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 19 min |
| May 5, 5:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 5, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 50 min |
| May 5, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 46 min |
| May 5, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 48 min |
| May 5, 6:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 25 min |
| May 5, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Putnam | 30 min |
| May 5, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 38 min |
| May 5, 7:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 5, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 51 min |
| May 5, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 28 min |
| May 5, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 27 min |
| May 5, 7:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 38 min |
| May 5, 8:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 14 min |
| May 5, 8:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin, Grundy | 42 min |
| May 5, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Perry | 51 min |
| May 5, 9:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Perry | 43 min |
| May 5, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 46 min |
| May 5, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 42 min |
| May 5, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 40 min |
| May 5, 10:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 47 min |
| May 5, 11:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Marshall, Moore | 44 min |
| May 5, 11:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 44 min |
| May 5, 12:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford | 81 min |
| May 5, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 51 min |
| May 5, 12:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy | 59 min |
| May 5, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 26 min |
| May 5, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 54 min |
| May 5, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton | 57 min |
| May 5, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 38 min |
| May 5, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson | 46 min |
| May 5, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 52 min |
| May 5, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 47 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.