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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2010, 9:21 PM CDT for Bedford County, Coffee County, Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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
- Oct 24, 2010, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2010, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bedford County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Rutherford County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 9:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 12 Nw Shelbyville, TN | THREE BARNS EXPERIENCED PARTIAL ROOF LOSS AND AN OUTBUILDING ALONG UNIONVILLE-DEASON ROAD LOST ITS ENTIRE ROOF. A COUPLE DOZEN TREES WERE SNAPPED AND MANY MORE LOST LARGE LIMBS ALONG AN APPROXIMATE 5 MILE LONG AND NEARLY HALF MILE WIDE PATH. MAXIMUM WINDS SPEE |
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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
243
WFUS54 KOHX 250221
TOROHX
TNC003-031-149-250300-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0049.101025T0221Z-101025T0300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
921 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHWESTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 918 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF
BELL BUCKLE...OR 10 MILES WEST OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BELL BUCKLE BY 945 PM CDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE REPORT FUNNEL CLOUDS...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL OR FLOODING
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL FREE AT...1...8 7 7...6 3
3...6 7 7 2...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
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 3550 8665 3558 8665 3558 8663 3559 8664
3562 8664 3586 8619 3575 8619 3575 8620
3571 8621 3571 8619 3559 8618
TIME...MOT...LOC 0221Z 242DEG 27KT 3555 8659
$$
19The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Maury | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 28 min |
| Oct 24, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 33 min |
| Oct 24, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 17 min |
| Oct 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 33 min |
| Oct 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 32 min |
| Oct 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 56 min |
| Oct 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 21 min |
| Oct 24, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 23 min |
| Oct 24, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton, Putnam | 51 min |
| Oct 24, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne | 29 min |
| Oct 25, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 4:02 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 33 more | 24 hr |
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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.