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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN

April 23, 2004Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2004, 1:45 PM CDT for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 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: Apr 23, 2004, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2004, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

712 
WFUS54 KOHX 231845
TORBNA
TNC189-231915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
144 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GLADEVILLE

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 139 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF BELINDA CITY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF LEBANON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WATERTOWN AND GLADEVILLE

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 3625 8653 3601 8645 3607 8608 3630 8617

$$
BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 12:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys	3 hr
Apr 23, 2:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Robertson	3 hr
Apr 23, 3:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	3 hr
Apr 23, 12:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	3 hr
Apr 23, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	46 min
Apr 23, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	51 min
Apr 23, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	45 min
Apr 23, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith	58 min
Apr 23, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	55 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.