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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 2011, 2:19 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 26 min. 7 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, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2011, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Davidson County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2:20 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Sw Mount Juliet, TN | NUMEROUS SNAPPED AND UPROOTED TREES INCLUDING SOME ROOF DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES IN THE MORELAND FARMS COMMUNITY OFF OF OLD LEBANON DIRT ROAD. |
| Apr 4, 2:20 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 W Gallatin, TN | SEVERAL TREES DOWN AT LONG HOLLOW GOLF COURSE |
| Apr 4, 2:22 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ese Mount Juliet, TN | NUMEROUS TREES UPROOT AND SNAPPED. SOME MOBILE HOMES WITH ROOF DAMAGE. |
| Apr 4, 2:26 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Wsw Lebanon, TN | SOME SHINGLES REMOVED FROM HOUSE ROOF AND TWO TREES UPROOTED. |
| Apr 4, 2:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lebanon, TN | LINE OF TREE DAMAGE AND TREE DEBRIS FROM MORELAND FARMS HEADED NORTHEAST CROSSING NORTH MOUNT JULIET ROAD ABOUT 100 YARDS NORTH OF OLD LEBANON DIRT ROAD INTERSECTION. GUTTERS AND PARTS OF ROOFING MISSING FROM SEVERAL BUSINESS JUST NORTH OF THE OLD LEBANON DIRT |
| Apr 4, 2:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Sw Gallatin, TN | TREES DOWN, TRAFFIC LIGHT BLOWN DOWN ON 109 AT BELVEDERE |
| Apr 4, 2:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hartsville, TN | TREES DOWN IN HARTSVILLE. |
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, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 31 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.
177
WFUS54 KOHX 041919
TOROHX
TNC037-165-169-189-041945-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0035.110404T1919Z-110404T1945Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
219 PM CDT MON APR 4 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
TROUSDALE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
WILSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 245 PM CDT
* AT 214 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKEWOOD...OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LP
FIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GALLATIN...LEBANON...HARTSVILLE...GREEN HILL...HENDERSONVILLE...
MOUNT JULIET...BELINDA CITY AND WATERTOWN.
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 3644 8613 3643 8606 3637 8605 3634 8610
3629 8613 3597 8601 3598 8608 3597 8610
3602 8637 3604 8638 3610 8650 3605 8656
3608 8672 3630 8679 3646 8616
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 239DEG 56KT 3623 8661
$$
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, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 38 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, 2:26 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.