Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 97, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2003, 11:28 AM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 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 17, 2003, 11:28 AM CDT (16:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2003, 12:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rutherford County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 171628 TORBNA TNC149-171705- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1127 AM CDT SAT MAY 17 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MURFREESBORO * UNTIL 1205 PM CDT * AT 1123 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO AT 1135 TO 1140 AM CDT NEAR WALTERHILL AT 1150 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 3582 8666 3570 8650 3593 8615 3600 8636 $$ END/JAO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 50 min |
| May 17, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 45 min |
| May 17, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lincoln | 45 min |
| May 17, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 42 min |
| May 17, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 46 min |
| May 17, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Moore | 42 min |
| May 17, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 38 min |
| May 17, 12:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy | 47 min |
| May 17, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 39 min |
| May 17, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale | 40 min |
| May 17, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 49 min |
| May 17, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam, Van Buren, White | 59 min |
| May 17, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 58 min |
| May 17, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 25 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.