Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2011, 1:07 PM CDT for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 38 min. 8 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
- Apr 4, 2011, 1:07 PM CDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2011, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dickson County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 1:19 PM CDT | TORNADO | 1 Wsw Waverly, TN | INITIAL DAMAGE WAS NOTED JUST WEST OF WAVERLY NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF BOWEN HILLS DRIVE AND HWY 70. THE DAMAGE CONTINUED DIRECTLY THROUGH DOWNTOWN WAVERLY FOR APPROXIMATELY 2.9 MILES. THE LAST EVIDENCE OF DAMAGE WAS NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF FAIRFIELD DRIVE AN |
| Apr 4, 1:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Waverly, TN | WINDS EST AT 80 TO 85 MPH. TREES AND LINES DOWN ACROSS WAVERLY. |
| Apr 4, 1:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Mcewen, TN | A CARPORT WAS DESTROYED...SEVERAL HOMES SUFFERED MINOR ROOF DAMAGE...AND DOZENS OF TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED. MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE 80 TO 90 MPH. |
| Apr 4, 1:30 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 Sw Dickson, TN | POSSIBLE RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO NEAR EXIT 163 ON I-40. ESTIMATED 80 MPH WINDS. FLYING DEBRI. |
| Apr 4, 1:33 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 E Mcewen, TN | INITIAL DAMAGE WAS NOTED ALONG HWY 70 APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE WEST OF TENNESSEE CITY IN WESTERN DICKSON COUNTY. DAMAGE WAS NEARLY CONTINUOUS ALONG A 7.3 MILE TRACK INTO THE WEST SIDE OF THE CITY OF DISCKSON. THE LAST EVIDENCE OF DAMAGE WAS JUST WEST OF DICKSON LA |
| Apr 4, 1:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 S Dickson, TN | LARGE TREES DOWN NEAR I-40 AND HWY 48 |
| Apr 4, 1:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 7 Se Charlotte, TN | PARK RANGER AT MONTGOMERY BELL STATE PARK REPORTS 20+ TREES DOWN. |
| Apr 4, 1:47 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sw White Bluff, TN | SEVERAL HOMES SUFFERED MINOR ROOF DAMAGE...DOZENS OF TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED...AND A COUPLE OUTBUILDINGS WERE TOPPLED. MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE NEAR 90 MPH. DAMAGE EXTENDED FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY BELL PARK TO WHITE BLUFF. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 4, 7:22 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 507 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
158
WUUS54 KOHX 041807
SVROHX
TNC043-083-085-125-161-041845-
/O.NEW.KOHX.SV.W.0053.110404T1807Z-110404T1845Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
107 PM CDT MON APR 4 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DICKSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
HOUSTON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
STEWART COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 145 PM CDT
* AT 104 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THE STORM WAS NEAR CAMDEN...
MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAVERLY...
ERIN...
MCEWEN...
DICKSON...
WHITE BLUFF...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2. DO NOT
STAY OUTDOORS IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MONDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL TENNESSEE.
&&
LAT...LON 3665 8785 3666 8711 3646 8712 3634 8728
3630 8713 3626 8719 3618 8714 3597 8721
3600 8753 3596 8755 3592 8771 3585 8772
3581 8786 3585 8795 3594 8793 3594 8800
3603 8800 3616 8792 3643 8805 3668 8806
TIME...MOT...LOC 1806Z 272DEG 65KT 3612 8803
$$
FORECASTER:BOYDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 9:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 24 min |
| Apr 4, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 36 min |
| Apr 4, 11:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more | 51 min |
| Apr 4, 12:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 30 min |
| Apr 4, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Williamson | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry and 1 more | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 4, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne | 40 min |
| Apr 4, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Humphreys, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Rutherford, Sumner and 2 more | 45 min |
| Apr 4, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Macon, Robertson, Smith and 2 more | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Davidson, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Sumner and 2 more | 52 min |
| Apr 4, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Davidson, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett and 4 more | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 26 min |
| Apr 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson | 33 min |
| Apr 4, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett and 4 more | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton, Putnam, Smith | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 2:54 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford | 21 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:54 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson | 67 min |
| Apr 4, 2:54 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Putnam, Rutherford and 4 more | 30 min |
| Apr 4, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 57 min |
| Apr 4, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam | 36 min |
| Apr 4, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam, Van Buren, Warren and 1 more | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Warren | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 6:25 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Hickman | 36 hr |
| Apr 4, 6:25 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Perry | 36 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.