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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN

September 25, 2005Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 8:39 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 21 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, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
21 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), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2005-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2005-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 260140
TOROHX
TNC055-260200-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0009.050926T0139Z-050926T0200Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 833 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME
  EAST CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR CAMPBELLSVILLE AT 850 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 3526 8721 3543 8720 3545 8716 3545 8708
      3544 8707 3544 8703 3544 8703 3527 8713
      3525 8713
$$
ROSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLawrence26 min
Sep 25, 8:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMaury37 min
Sep 25, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWilliamson33 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.