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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Nashville, TN

September 25, 2005Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 4:51 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 24 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: Sep 25, 2005, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Giles County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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
Sep 25, 11:05 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 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 252152
TOROHX
TNC055-252215-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0006.050925T2151Z-050925T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
451 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PULASKI

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 446 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PULASKI...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LYNNVILLE BY 505 PM CDT

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 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
TENNESSEE.

LAT...LON 3509 8726 3502 8706 3538 8687 3547 8703

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	30 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.