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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN

June 14, 2005Fentress County, Overton County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2005, 6:21 PM CDT for Fentress County, Overton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 14, 2005, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fentress County, TN, Overton County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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
Jun 14, 6:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	17 Ssw Jamestown, TN	SPOTTER REPORTED LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN AT CLARKRANGE.
Jun 14, 6:50 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	11 Ssw Jamestown, TN	LARGE TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN AT GRIMSLEY.

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
Jun 14, 12:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1263 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 142323
TOROHX
TNC049-133-142345-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0005.050614T2321Z-050614T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
621 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN FENTRESS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SOUTHERN OVERTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SOUTH
  CENTRAL OVERTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  COOKEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BEAVER HILL IN SOUTHERN OVERTON COUNTY AT 638 PM CDT

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE.

LAT...LON 3632 8543 3614 8543 3613 8493 3636 8493

$$

JLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	37 min
Jun 14, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	32 min
Jun 14, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	36 min
Jun 14, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon	23 min
Jun 14, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	25 min
Jun 14, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	41 min
Jun 14, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Pickett	36 min
Jun 14, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Smith, Trousdale	23 min
Jun 14, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Overton, Smith	25 min
Jun 14, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton, Putnam	26 min
Jun 14, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress	33 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.