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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2005, 3:46 PM CST for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2005, 3:46 PM CST (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2005, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 4:08 PM CST | HAIL 0.75 | 16 Sw Waynesboro, TN | |
| Nov 15, 4:29 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 16 Sw Waynesboro, TN | BARN ROOF DAMAGED NEAR LUTTS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 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 152147 TOROHX TNC181-152230- /O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0020.051115T2146Z-051115T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 346 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 342 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WAYNESBORO BY 420 PM CST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR TENNESSEE. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE. LAT...LON 3513 8830 3499 8816 3536 8752 3555 8770 $$ 31
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 8:12 AM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 33 more | 22 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton | 47 min |
| Nov 15, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 59 min |
| Nov 15, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston | 47 min |
| Nov 15, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 25 min |
| Nov 15, 4:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 56 min |
| Nov 15, 4:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 34 min |
| Nov 15, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys | 61 min |
| Nov 15, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lewis | 36 min |
| Nov 15, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 37 min |
| Nov 15, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 53 min |
| Nov 15, 5:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson | 44 min |
| Nov 15, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 55 min |
| Nov 15, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Nov 15, 5:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 51 min |
| Nov 15, 5:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson | 44 min |
| Nov 15, 5:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 39 min |
| Nov 15, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 52 min |
| Nov 15, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 63 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.