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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN

March 13, 2006Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 2006, 4:02 PM CST for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 13 min. 1 report 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: Mar 13, 2006, 4:02 PM CST (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2006, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 13 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), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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
Mar 13, 4:10 PM CST	HAIL 0.75	5 E Pulaski, TN

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

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 13, 1:48 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 321 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 132202
TOROHX
TNC055-132215-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0002.060313T2202Z-060313T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
402 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 357 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL
  GILES COUNTY...OR ABOUT NEAR PULASKI...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

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 800 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
TENNESSEE.

LAT...LON 3533 8712 3517 8701 3519 8684 3535 8693

$$

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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 13, 1:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	33 min
Mar 13, 3:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton	29 min
Mar 13, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	22 min
Mar 13, 3:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	38 min
Mar 13, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	14 min
Mar 13, 4:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford	22 min
Mar 13, 4:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	48 min
Mar 13, 4:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon	21 min
Mar 13, 5:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress	19 min
Mar 13, 5:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee	29 min
Mar 13, 5:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	37 min
Mar 13, 5:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	31 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.