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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Nashville, TN

June 2, 2004Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2004, 7:46 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 2, 2004, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 1302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

533 
WFUS54 KOHX 030046
TORBNA
TNC125-161-030115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
744 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CLARKSVILLE
  SOUTHEASTERN STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 735 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLARKSVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH
  OF ERIN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CLARKSVILLE AT 810 PM 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 3650 8777 3632 8775 3633 8727 3658 8730

$$
END/JAO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	51 min
Jun 2, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	44 min
Jun 2, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	57 min
Jun 2, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys, Perry	46 min
Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	55 min
Jun 2, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Wilson	61 min
Jun 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	46 min
Jun 2, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	47 min
Jun 2, 8:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Wilson	2 hr
Jun 2, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson	46 min
Jun 2, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	45 min
Jun 2, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Wilson	57 min
Jun 2, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	47 min
Jun 2, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	38 min
Jun 2, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	33 min
Jun 2, 10:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland	3 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.