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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2011, 6:51 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 24 min. 3 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
- Mar 23, 2011, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2011, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Rutherford County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:03 PM CDT | TORNADO | 13 Sse Murfreesboro, TN | DAMAGE OCCURRED ON WALNUT GROVE ROAD NEAR HWY 231...SOME TREES WERE UPROOTED AND A SMALL PORTION OF SHINGLES WERE REMOVED FROM A FEW HOMES. A COUPLE OF OUTBUILDINGS WERE ALSO DAMAGED. THE TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED EF-0 WITH MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS AROUND 80 MPH. |
| Mar 23, 7:04 PM CDT | TORNADO | 9 S Murfreesboro, TN | A DAMAGE SURVEY CONFIRMED AN EF-0 TORNADO WITH 70 TO 80 MPH WINDS TOUCHED DOWN 2 MILES WEST OF CHRISTIANA. PATH WAS 1 MILE LONG AND 50 YARDS WIDE. DAMAGE OCCURRED ON WALNUT GROVE ROAD NEAR HIGHWAY 231. SOME TREES WERE UPROOTED AND SMALL PORTION OF SHINGLES WER |
| Mar 23, 7:10 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 9 S Murfreesboro, TN | TREES DOWN IN CHRISTIANA. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
727
WFUS54 KOHX 232351
TOROHX
TNC149-240015-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0020.110323T2351Z-110324T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
651 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO...AND MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY.
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 3564 8642 3566 8649 3571 8654 3571 8663
3569 8664 3571 8668 3577 8667 3580 8661
3585 8660 3582 8617 3576 8618 3569 8624
3564 8624 3567 8634 3566 8637 3563 8637
TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 277DEG 34KT 3575 8654
$$
04The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Pickett | 15 min |
| Mar 23, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, DeKalb, Putnam, White | 26 min |
| Mar 23, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Pickett | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 22 min |
| Mar 23, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 13 min |
| Mar 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton | 60 min |
| Mar 23, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale, Wilson | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Wilson | 27 min |
| Mar 23, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Wilson | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Wilson | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury, Rutherford | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 16 min |
| Mar 23, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, White | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.