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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN

March 5, 2004Van Buren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 9:40 PM CST for Van Buren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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, 9:40 PM CST (03:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 10:15 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Van Buren County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 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

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The text

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

866 
WFUS54 KOHX 060340
TORBNA
TNC175-060415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
937 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VAN BUREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPENCER

* UNTIL 1015 PM CST

* AT 935 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPENCER...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  10 SOUTH OF SPENCER AT 950 PM CST
  NEAR FALL CREEK FALLS AT 1000 PM CST

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO. 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 3560 8570 3548 8555 3564 8504 3590 8536

$$
BOYD

The 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, 9:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy, Warren	43 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.