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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Nashville, TN

June 13, 2004Benton County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 2:43 PM CDT for Benton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 62 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 13, 2004, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Benton County, TN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 11:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 1101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 131943
TORBNA
TNC005-132045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
241 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BENTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAMDEN

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 236 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO DEVELOPING 10 MILES WEST OF CAMDEN...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF
  HUNTINGDON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CAMDEN AT 255 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 3633 8840 3586 8840 3588 8799 3633 8800

$$
BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	42 min
Jun 12, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	34 min
Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	45 min
Jun 13, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Stewart	56 min
Jun 13, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	62 min
Jun 13, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	61 min
Jun 13, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	38 min
Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	45 min
Jun 13, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Montgomery, Robertson	61 min
Jun 13, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	46 min
Jun 13, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	55 min
Jun 13, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	61 min
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Humphreys	59 min
Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston	63 min
Jun 13, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	45 min
Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis	45 min
Jun 13, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	51 min
Jun 13, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	53 min
Jun 13, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	48 min
Jun 13, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	61 min
Jun 13, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	46 min
Jun 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	37 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Trousdale	60 min
Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	43 min
Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford	60 min
Jun 13, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	58 min
Jun 13, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb	50 min
Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	64 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.