Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 76, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2006, 7:42 PM CDT for Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 7, 2006, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2006, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Warren County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KOHX 080042
TOROHX
TNC177-080115-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0076.060408T0042Z-060408T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
742 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCMINNVILLE
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 738 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF MCMINNVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
MCMINNVILLE BY 750 PM CDT
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 3557 8592 3565 8596 3577 8561 3570 8558
3568 8559 3558 8556 3554 8568 3554 8576
3552 8581
$$
31The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 22 min |
| Apr 7, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 40 min |
| Apr 7, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 19 min |
| Apr 7, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 1:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress | 3 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 2006Every tornado warning in 2006Tornadoes in 2006
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.