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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2007, 4:30 PM CDT for Clay County, Overton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 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 26, 2007, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, TN, Overton County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 26, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 262130 TOROHX TNC027-133-262200- /O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0005.070426T2130Z-070426T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 430 PM CDT THU APR 26 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CELINA... NORTHWESTERN OVERTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 425 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF CELINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CELINA BY 435 PM CDT... 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 3643 8559 3636 8543 3677 8514 3687 8539 $$ 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Overton | 23 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.