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Tornado Warning 84, NWS Nashville, TN

September 22, 2006Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2006, 3:34 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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 22, 2006, 3:34 PM CDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired: Sep 22, 2006, 4:00 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), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 415 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 476 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 222035
TOROHX
TNC099-222100-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0084.060922T2034Z-060922T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
334 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 331 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 18 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  WAYNESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LAWRENCEBURG BY 400 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.

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.

LAT...LON 3503 8760 3504 8757 3514 8759 3515 8757
      3526 8757 3541 8733 3533 8725 3522 8721
      3501 8760

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 22, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	23 min
Sep 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	31 min
Sep 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.