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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Nashville, TN

September 25, 2005Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 8:19 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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: Sep 25, 2005, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2005, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 25, 8:26 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Se Lawrenceburg, TN	POWER LINES DOWN WITH TELEPHONE POLE SNAPPED, SEVERAL TREES DOWN, SOME UPROOTED, SOME SNAPPED, DAMAGE PATH EXTENDS FROM FALL RIVER ROAD NORTHEASTWARD TO GIMLET ROAD
Sep 25, 8:28 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 E Lawrenceburg, TN	TREES TWO FEET IN DIAMETER PUSHED OVER

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 457 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 260120
TOROHX
TNC099-260145-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0008.050926T0119Z-050926T0145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LORETTO...
  OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR THE SOUTHEAST PART OF           
  LAWRENCEBURG BY 835 PM CDT.

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.

LAT...LON 3507 8746 3537 8728 3534 8723 3514 8721
      3513 8723 3511 8721 3504 8723 3502 8726
      3502 8736
$$
ROSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	21 min
Sep 25, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	37 min
Sep 25, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Williamson	33 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.