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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Nashville, TN

November 28, 2005Marshall County, Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 28, 2005, 12:42 PM CST for Marshall County, Maury 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 28, 2005, 12:42 PM CST (18:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 28, 2005, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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.

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 28, 11:13 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 281843
TOROHX
TNC117-119-281930-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0052.051128T1842Z-051128T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1242 PM CST MON NOV 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEWISBURG
  EASTERN MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1240 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF
  LEWISBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  8 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEWISBURG BY 1245 PM CST

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.

LAT...LON 3533 8683 3533 8690 3544 8693 3546 8707
      3573 8687 3569 8675 3571 8667 3569 8664
      3546 8667 3534 8660 3528 8673 3528 8680

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 28, 4:18 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	OHX	Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 33 more	7 hr
Nov 28, 11:26 AM CST	High Wind Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 22 more	7 hr
Nov 28, 12:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	46 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.