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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 28, 2011, 6:58 AM CST for Hickman County, Lewis County, Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 28, 2011, 6:58 AM CST (12:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2011, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hickman County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Perry County, TN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 5:59 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 948 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 404 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
495
WFUS54 KOHX 281258
TOROHX
TNC081-101-135-281330-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0015.110228T1258Z-110228T1330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
658 AM CST MON FEB 28 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN HICKMAN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHWESTERN LEWIS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
CENTRAL PERRY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 730 AM CST
* AT 653 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR DECATURVILLE...OR 11 MILES WEST OF LINDEN...AND
MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
LINDEN AROUND 705 AM CST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3567 8802 3569 8802 3583 8760 3559 8750
3549 8798 3552 8797 3554 8798 3561 8803
3565 8803
TIME...MOT...LOC 1257Z 249DEG 44KT 3560 8798
$$
ROSE2 follow-up statements
418
WWUS54 KOHX 281315
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
715 AM CST MON FEB 28 2011
TNC081-101-135-281330-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-110228T1330Z/
HICKMAN TN-PERRY TN-LEWIS TN-
715 AM CST MON FEB 28 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN LEWIS...PERRY
AND SOUTHWESTERN HICKMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 730 AM CST...
AT 711 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LINDEN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
LEWIS...PERRY AND SOUTHWESTERN HICKMAN COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3567 8802 3569 8802 3583 8760 3559 8750
3549 8798 3552 8797 3554 8798 3561 8803
3565 8803
TIME...MOT...LOC 1315Z 249DEG 44KT 3568 8773
$$
ROSE362
WWUS54 KOHX 281329
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
729 AM CST MON FEB 28 2011
TNC081-101-135-281340-
/O.EXP.KOHX.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-110228T1330Z/
HICKMAN TN-PERRY TN-LEWIS TN-
729 AM CST MON FEB 28 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN LEWIS...PERRY AND
SOUTHWESTERN HICKMAN COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA.
LAT...LON 3567 8802 3569 8802 3583 8760 3559 8750
3549 8798 3552 8797 3554 8798 3561 8803
3565 8803
TIME...MOT...LOC 1330Z 249DEG 44KT 3574 8752
$$
ROSEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 5:16 AM CST | Wind Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 21 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 6:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 6:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Montgomery | 25 min |
| Feb 28, 6:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 7:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson | 30 min |
| Feb 28, 7:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Lewis and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 7:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Sumner, Williamson | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Macon, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury | 55 min |
| Feb 28, 8:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren | 25 min |
| Feb 28, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 15 min |
| Feb 28, 10:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Van Buren, White | 26 min |
| Feb 28, 11:12 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Grundy and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson | 44 min |
| Feb 28, 11:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 11:50 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 34 min |
| Feb 28, 12:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 27 min |
| Feb 28, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy | 14 min |
| Feb 28, 1:58 PM CST | River Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson | 59 min |
| Feb 28, 2:08 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Davidson | 10 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:08 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Davidson | 10 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:08 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Davidson | 117 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.