Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 94, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2003, 4:08 AM CDT for Cannon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 22 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, 4:08 AM CDT (09:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2003, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cannon County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:10 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 11, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 53 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.
879 WFUS54 KOHX 110908 TORBNA TNC015-110930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 407 AM CDT SUN MAY 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CANNON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 359 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF AUBURNTOWN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODBURY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN CANNON COUNTY AT 420 AM CDT .A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOME AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. && LAT...LON 3598 8610 3587 8625 3584 8591 3595 8600 $$ GIRODO
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, 3:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 41 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, 4:13 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.