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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2011, 7:19 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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
- Mar 23, 2011, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2011, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Giles County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
774
WFUS54 KOHX 240019
TOROHX
TNC055-240045-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0025.110324T0019Z-110324T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
719 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GILES COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PULASKI...AND MOVING EAST AT
45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PULASKI...ELKTON AND ARDMORE.
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 3500 8695 3500 8700 3506 8721 3524 8718
3516 8682 3500 8683 3499 8684 3499 8694
TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 287DEG 40KT 3512 8710
$$
04The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 27 min |
| Mar 23, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland, White | 36 min |
| Mar 23, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 32 min |
| Mar 23, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 22 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.