Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2011, 7:32 PM CDT for Bedford County, Coffee County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2011, 8:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bedford County, TN, Coffee County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7:47 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Tullahoma, TN | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD IN TULLAHOMA. |
| Mar 23, 7:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 8 Se Manchester, TN | TREES REPORTED DOWN IN HILLSBORO. |
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 00:00Z, 0.5 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
- 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.
956
WFUS54 KOHX 240032
TOROHX
TNC003-031-240115-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0026.110324T0032Z-110324T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
732 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHERN COFFEE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 728 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHELBYVILLE...AND MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MANCHESTER...TULLAHOMA AND NORMANDY.
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 3535 8604 3536 8616 3534 8625 3536 8625
3537 8628 3539 8625 3541 8627 3533 8641
3534 8647 3552 8643 3544 8588 3537 8587
3529 8593
TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 282DEG 39KT 3541 8633
$$
042 follow-up statements
155
WWUS54 KOHX 240045
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
745 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011
TNC003-240055-
/O.CAN.KOHX.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-110324T0115Z/
BEDFORD TN-
745 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BEDFORD COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED EAST OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 3535 8604 3536 8615 3534 8625 3536 8625
3537 8628 3539 8625 3541 8627 3546 8623
3550 8624 3544 8588 3538 8588 3537 8587
3529 8593
TIME...MOT...LOC 0045Z 282DEG 39KT 3538 8616
$$
TNC031-240115-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-110324T0115Z/
COFFEE TN-
745 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN COFFEE COUNTY
UNTIL 815 PM CDT...
AT 743 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TULLAHOMA...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MANCHESTER.
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 3535 8604 3536 8615 3534 8625 3536 8625
3537 8628 3539 8625 3541 8627 3546 8623
3550 8624 3544 8588 3538 8588 3537 8587
3529 8593
TIME...MOT...LOC 0045Z 282DEG 39KT 3538 8616
$$
04387
WWUS54 KOHX 240104
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
804 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011
TNC031-240113-
/O.CAN.KOHX.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-110324T0115Z/
COFFEE TN-
804 PM CDT WED MAR 23 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN COFFEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 3535 8604 3536 8615 3534 8625 3536 8625
3537 8628 3539 8625 3541 8627 3546 8623
3550 8624 3544 8588 3538 8588 3537 8587
3529 8593
TIME...MOT...LOC 0103Z 282DEG 39KT 3534 8593
$$
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, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 26 min |
| Mar 23, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.