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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Nashville, TN

March 20, 2004Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2004, 1:30 PM CST for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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 20, 2004, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Mar 20, 2004, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stewart 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
Mar 20, 11:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 1720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

766 
WFUS54 KOHX 201930
TORBNA
TNC161-202015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
127 PM CST SAT MAR 20 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 122 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO DEVELOPING OVER DOVER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH THE DOVER AREA

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CARLISLE CUMBERLAND CITY
  AND INDIAN MOUND.

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 3663 8802 3639 8783 3642 8760 3673 8770

$$
BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 12:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	62 min
Mar 20, 12:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	62 min
Mar 20, 1:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	62 min
Mar 20, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	45 min
Mar 20, 1:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	54 min
Mar 20, 1:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	2 hr
Mar 20, 1:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	34 min
Mar 20, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston	60 min
Mar 20, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	62 min
Mar 20, 2:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	38 min
Mar 20, 2:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	35 min
Mar 20, 2:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Wilson	49 min
Mar 20, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Robertson	43 min
Mar 20, 2:39 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Sumner	2 hr
Mar 20, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner	33 min
Mar 20, 2:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	43 min
Mar 20, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Overton	35 min
Mar 20, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	42 min
Mar 20, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	41 min
Mar 20, 3:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Warren	55 min
Mar 20, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	31 min
Mar 20, 4:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	31 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.