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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Nashville, TN

March 31, 2006Bedford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2006, 8:28 PM CST for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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: Mar 31, 2006, 8:28 PM CST (02:28 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2006, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bedford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 31, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 010229
TOROHX
TNC003-010300-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0013.060401T0228Z-060401T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
828 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBYVILLE

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 825 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SHELBYVILLE BY 835 PM

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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.

LAT...LON 3570 8662 3546 8664 3533 8642 3563 8625

$$
BOYD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KOHX 010251
SVSOHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
851 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2006

TNC003-010300-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060401T0300Z/
BEDFORD TN-
851 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR BEDFORD
COUNTY...

AT 849 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WARTRACE...OR
ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING 
FOR PORTIONS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

LAT...LON 3570 8662 3546 8664 3533 8642 3563 8625

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 6:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys	43 min
Mar 31, 6:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	36 min
Mar 31, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	34 min
Mar 31, 7:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury, Williamson	32 min
Mar 31, 7:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	40 min
Mar 31, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury	46 min
Mar 31, 7:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford	36 min
Mar 31, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	35 min
Mar 31, 8:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Maury	2 hr

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.