Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 9:17 PM CST for Grundy County, Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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
- Mar 5, 2004, 9:17 PM CST (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2004, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Grundy County, TN, Warren County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 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 060317
TORBNA
TNC061-177-060400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
913 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
GRUNDY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ALTAMONT
WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCMINNVILLE
* UNTIL 1000 PM CST
* AT 910 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCMINNVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MANCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
MORRISON AT 920 PM CST
VIOLA AT 925 PM CST
MCMINNVILLE AT 930 PM CST
ALTAMONT AT 935 PM CST
BEERSHEBA SPRINGS AT 940 PM CST
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GRUETLI-LAAGER
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO APPROACHING MORRISON IN SOUTHWEST
WARREN COUNTY. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES.
MOVE TO A BASEMENT...AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
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 3534 8588 3551 8586 3568 8602 3577 8580
3569 8562 3550 8559 3533 8559
$$
BOYDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Smith | 114 min |
| Mar 5, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Wayne | 52 min |
| Mar 5, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 46 min |
| Mar 5, 8:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 45 min |
| Mar 5, 9:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 32 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.