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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Nashville, TN

November 15, 2005Rutherford County, Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2005, 7:57 PM CST for Rutherford County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 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, 7:57 PM CST (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Rutherford County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 160157
TOROHX
TNC149-189-160245-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0046.051116T0157Z-051116T0245Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MURFREESBORO
  WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEBANON

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 755 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SMYRNA...OR
  ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH. TAKE COVER NOW.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WALTERHILL BY 805 PM CST
  6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEBANON BY 825 PM CST
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WATERTOWN BY 830 PM CST

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 3570 8631 3606 8607 3628 8614 3628 8647
      3576 8663

$$

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, 7:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Williamson	52 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, 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.