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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Nashville, TN

November 5, 2007Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 2007, 4:57 PM CST for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports 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: Nov 5, 2007, 4:57 PM CST (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Nov 5, 2007, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Davidson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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
Nov 5, 5:10 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Nashville, TN	TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN COUNTY WIDE
Nov 5, 5:10 PM CST	HAIL 1	5 S Nashville, TN	AT CRIVE HALL

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

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 18 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: 1786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 383 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 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 052258
TOROHX
TNC037-052330-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0010.071105T2257Z-071105T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
457 PM CST MON NOV 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NASHVILLE...

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 452 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
  BELLE MEADE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING
  EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  OAK HILL AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF NASHVILLE BY 505 PM CST...
  AND WILL ALSO CROSS OTHER SOUTHERN SUBURBS OF NASHVILLE BY 530 PM.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.

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 3620 8663 3601 8669 3606 8687 3606 8703
      3622 8694
TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 284DEG 40KT 3608 8689

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 4:01 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland, Davidson and 31 more	14 hr
Nov 5, 4:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	43 min
Nov 5, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	37 min
Nov 5, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	31 min
Nov 5, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	32 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.