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Tornado Warning 96, NWS Nashville, TN

May 15, 2003Fentress County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 2:17 PM CDT for Fentress County, Tennessee. It was in force for 13 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 15, 2003, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fentress County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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 15, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 663 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 151917
TORBNA
TNC049-151930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
216 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL FENTRESS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD IN THE   
  JAMESTOWN VICINITY. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO INCLUDE ALLARDT.

HEAVY RAIN COULD HIDE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL
YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING, IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
&&
LAT...LON 3648 8483 3631 8487 3624 8448 3644 8444
$$
ROSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton, Pickett	44 min
May 15, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	23 min
May 15, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	14 min
May 15, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Williamson	48 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.