Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 92, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2003, 3:49 AM CDT for Wilson 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 11, 2003, 3:49 AM CDT (08:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2003, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 10, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 1200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 110849 TORBNA TNC189-110930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 348 AM CDT SUN MAY 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 342 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATERTOWN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF MURFREESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OVER WATERTOWN AT 410 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 3605 8654 3595 8622 3606 8601 3624 8600 $$ 04
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 34 min |
| May 11, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 28 min |
| May 11, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 31 min |
| May 11, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry | 27 min |
| May 11, 2:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 28 min |
| May 11, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Williamson | 32 min |
| May 11, 3:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 24 min |
| May 11, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 32 min |
| May 11, 3:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 28 min |
| May 11, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Trousdale | 34 min |
| May 11, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 40 min |
| May 11, 4:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 29 min |
| May 11, 4:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon | 22 min |
| May 11, 4:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 17 min |
| May 11, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Putnam | 25 min |
| May 11, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 29 min |
| May 11, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 18 min |
| May 11, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Van Buren and 1 more | 31 min |
| May 11, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy | 30 min |
| May 11, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 32 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.