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Tornado Warning 86, NWS Nashville, TN

May 7, 2003Bedford County, Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 6:47 AM CDT for Bedford County, Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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 7, 2003, 6:47 AM CDT (11:47 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2003, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bedford County, TN, Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:49 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 44 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

124 
WFUS54 KOHX 071147
TORBNA
TNC003-149-071230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
646 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MURFREESBORO

* UNTIL 730 AM CDT

* AT 640 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF LEWISBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MURFREESBORO AT 730 AM CDT
  WALTERHILL AT 730 AM 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 3566 8678 3553 8663 3583 8619 3601 8641

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln	29 min
May 6, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Giles, Marshall	33 min
May 6, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Moore	46 min
May 6, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	39 min
May 6, 11:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence and 7 more	3 hr
May 6, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson	31 min
May 7, 12:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart	3 hr
May 7, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Warren	32 min
May 7, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	41 min
May 7, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson	39 min
May 7, 12:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson	3 hr
May 7, 12:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Van Buren, Warren, White and 1 more	3 hr
May 7, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	33 min
May 7, 1:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman	3 hr
May 7, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	48 min
May 7, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner	50 min
May 7, 1:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	3 hr
May 7, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Perry	31 min
May 7, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	54 min
May 7, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Macon, Smith, Trousdale	3 hr
May 7, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Robertson, Williamson	42 min
May 7, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	43 min
May 7, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson	47 min
May 7, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford, Williamson	43 min
May 7, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Putnam, Smith and 1 more	57 min
May 7, 3:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence and 8 more	3 hr
May 7, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Pickett	55 min
May 7, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Van Buren, Warren, White	53 min
May 7, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy	48 min
May 7, 5:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland, Davidson and 22 more	6 hr
May 7, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Wayne	33 min
May 7, 5:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Maury	42 min
May 7, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	50 min
May 7, 6:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman and 8 more	6 hr
May 7, 6:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Warren	6 hr
May 7, 6:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Williamson	32 min
May 7, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	44 min
May 7, 7:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Wilson	25 min
May 7, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	48 min
May 7, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	45 min
May 7, 8:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	42 min
May 7, 8:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	38 min
May 7, 8:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	48 min
May 7, 8:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, White	43 min
May 7, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	30 min
May 7, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	42 min
May 7, 10:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 25 more	5 hr

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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.