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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2004, 9:55 PM CDT for Houston County, Humphreys County, Tennessee. It was in force for 65 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
- Oct 18, 2004, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Houston County, TN, Humphreys 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 558 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 651 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 16.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 190255 TORBNA TNC083-085-190400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 954 PM CDT MON OCT 18 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HOUSTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ERIN NORTHERN HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAVERLY * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 948 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TENNESSEE RIDGE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAVERLY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TENNESSEE RIDGE BY 1005 PM CDT ERIN BY 1010 PM CDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3636 8795 3607 8795 3606 8752 3637 8749 BOYD $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 23 min |
| Oct 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 30 min |
| Oct 18, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart | 52 min |
| Oct 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Stewart | 63 min |
| Oct 18, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 30 min |
| Oct 18, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 55 min |
| Oct 18, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 29 min |
| Oct 18, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 23 min |
| Oct 18, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Oct 18, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 32 min |
| Oct 18, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 47 min |
| Oct 18, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 55 min |
| Oct 18, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson | 3 hr |
| Oct 18, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 60 min |
| Oct 19, 12:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Hickman | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 12:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Williamson | 33 min |
| Oct 19, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 56 min |
| Oct 19, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 31 min |
| Oct 19, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 58 min |
| Oct 19, 12:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 22 min |
| Oct 19, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 12:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Hickman, Marshall, Maury and 3 more | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 25 min |
| Oct 19, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 22 min |
| Oct 19, 1:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 27 min |
| Oct 19, 1:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 38 min |
| Oct 19, 2:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 28 min |
| Oct 19, 2:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 115 min |
| Oct 19, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 24 min |
| Oct 19, 2:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Wayne | 34 min |
| Oct 19, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Hickman, Perry | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 3:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 3:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 4:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Grundy | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 25 min |
| Oct 19, 4:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 5:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 2 hr |
| Oct 19, 6:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Grundy | 119 min |
| Oct 19, 7:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence, Marshall and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 11:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 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.