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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Nashville, TN

November 15, 2005Marshall County, Williamson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2005, 7:23 PM CST for Marshall County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 52 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: Nov 15, 2005, 7:23 PM CST (01:23 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Marshall County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 421 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 506 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 160126
TOROHX
TNC117-187-160215-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0043.051116T0123Z-051116T0215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
723 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  EASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 717 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 21 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF NOLENSVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF COLUMBIA...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. TAKE COVER NOW.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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.

LAT...LON 3562 8680 3569 8680 3571 8677 3576 8690
      3603 8677 3598 8662 3580 8662 3576 8670
      3572 8670 3569 8664 3560 8667

$$
BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 6:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Dickson	36 min
Nov 15, 6:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence	34 min
Nov 15, 6:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Williamson	51 min
Nov 15, 6:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	60 min
Nov 15, 6:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	43 min
Nov 15, 6:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham	24 min
Nov 15, 6:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	34 min
Nov 15, 6:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	62 min
Nov 15, 6:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	55 min
Nov 15, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis	51 min
Nov 15, 6:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	64 min
Nov 15, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	67 min
Nov 15, 7:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	50 min
Nov 15, 7:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon	32 min
Nov 15, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Trousdale	25 min
Nov 15, 7:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence	34 min
Nov 15, 7:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	41 min
Nov 15, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Trousdale	46 min
Nov 15, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	45 min
Nov 15, 7:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	48 min
Nov 15, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	49 min
Nov 15, 8:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	42 min
Nov 15, 8:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Overton, Putnam, Smith	34 min
Nov 15, 8:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb	33 min
Nov 15, 8:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Rutherford	41 min
Nov 15, 9:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon	29 min
Nov 15, 9:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb	24 min
Nov 15, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	35 min
Nov 15, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Putnam, White	33 min
Nov 15, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren, White	60 min
Nov 15, 9:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren	27 min
Nov 15, 10:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	White	45 min
Nov 15, 10:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Grundy, Van Buren	53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.