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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Nashville, TN

May 26, 2004Robertson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 4:26 PM CDT for Robertson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 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: May 26, 2004, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Robertson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 340 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: 1081 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

653 
WFUS54 KOHX 262126
TORBNA
TNC147-262215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
426 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 421 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  TORNADO 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SPRINGFIELD AT 445 PM CDT
  GREENBRIER AT 450 PM CDT
  CROSS PLAINS AT 455 PM CDT
  WHITE HOUSE AT 500 PM CDT

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 3661 8663 3647 8665 3640 8677 3647 8692
          3654 8712 3665 8711 3665 8687
$$
ROSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Overton	51 min
May 26, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton	30 min
May 26, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Macon	25 min
May 26, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	45 min
May 26, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	14 min
May 26, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	12 min
May 26, 5:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett and 1 more	3 hr
May 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	16 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	26 min
May 26, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Trousdale	22 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.