Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 2010, 3:56 PM CST for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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
- Jan 21, 2010, 3:56 PM CST (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2010, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Giles County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
061
WFUS54 KOHX 212156
TOROHX
TNC055-212230-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0002.100121T2156Z-100121T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
356 PM CST THU JAN 21 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN GILES COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 430 PM CST
* AT 352 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ELKTON...OR
9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PULASKI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
HIGWAY 31 JUST SOUTHEAST OF PULASKI AT 410 PM CST
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST
THURSDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL TENNESSEE.
&&
LAT...LON 3500 8698 3509 8710 3532 8689 3531 8686
3532 8685 3531 8681 3527 8681 3508 8682
3500 8689 3499 8691
TIME...MOT...LOC 2156Z 220DEG 27KT 3510 8694
$$
BOYDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 9:00 PM CST | River Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford | 12 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 23 min |
| Jan 21, 2:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Macon, Trousdale | 31 min |
| Jan 21, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford, Williamson | 37 min |
| Jan 21, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 29 min |
| Jan 21, 3:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 19 min |
| Jan 21, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 31 min |
| Jan 21, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 26 min |
| Jan 21, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Putnam | 26 min |
| Jan 21, 3:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Smith | 37 min |
| Jan 21, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Putnam | 35 min |
| Jan 21, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Overton, Pickett | 26 min |
| Jan 21, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Warren, White | 35 min |
| Jan 21, 4:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Maury | 32 min |
| Jan 21, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam | 33 min |
| Jan 21, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 14 min |
| Jan 21, 5:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Marshall, Maury | 28 min |
| Jan 21, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 35 min |
| Jan 21, 5:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 18 min |
| Jan 21, 5:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 36 min |
| Jan 21, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 14 min |
| Jan 21, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 21 min |
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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.