Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 2011, 2:44 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min. 5 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, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2011, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jackson County, TN, Overton County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Smith County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2:49 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Carthage, TN | TREES BLOWN DOWN IN CARTHAGE ON JEFFERSON STREET. |
| Apr 4, 2:56 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | Carthage, TN | |
| Apr 4, 3:07 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 W Carthage, TN | 12 INCH DIAMETR LIMB ON HOUSE - 132 COUNTY HOUSE CIRCLE |
| Apr 4, 3:20 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Algood, TN | ROTATION REPORTED ALONG WITH DEBRI FLYING IN DOWNTOWN ALGOOD |
| Apr 4, 3:34 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cookeville, TN | ROOF DAMAGE ON TTU CAMPUS AT PRESCOTT HALL AND MINOR ROOF DAMAGE AT PRESCOTT MIDDLE SCHOOL. |
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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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.
899
WFUS54 KOHX 041944
TOROHX
TNC087-133-141-159-042030-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0039.110404T1944Z-110404T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
244 PM CDT MON APR 4 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
WEST CENTRAL OVERTON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
PUTNAM COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SMITH COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 240 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF CARTHAGE...AND MOVING EAST AT 70
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CARTHAGE...COOKEVILLE...GORDONSVILLE...BAXTER AND ALGOOD.
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 3606 8537 3609 8549 3608 8555 3606 8557
3607 8568 3609 8572 3608 8577 3613 8581
3613 8584 3610 8586 3612 8590 3611 8591
3612 8595 3610 8600 3611 8606 3626 8612
3634 8610 3636 8535
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 273DEG 61KT 3622 8597
$$
BOYD1 follow-up statement
778 WWUS54 KOHX 042010 SVSOHX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 310 PM CDT MON APR 4 2011 TNC159-042017- /O.CAN.KOHX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-110404T2030Z/ SMITH TN- 310 PM CDT MON APR 4 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SMITH COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3612 8573 3630 8571 3628 8536 3609 8537 TIME...MOT...LOC 2007Z 274DEG 49KT 3620 8561 $$ TNC087-133-141-042030- /O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-110404T2030Z/ PUTNAM TN-JACKSON TN-OVERTON TN- 310 PM CDT MON APR 4 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN OVERTON... SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON AND PUTNAM COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT... AT 302 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BAXTER...OR 11 MILES WEST OF COOKEVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COOKEVILLE AND ALGOOD. 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 3612 8573 3630 8571 3628 8536 3609 8537 TIME...MOT...LOC 2007Z 274DEG 49KT 3620 8561 $$ BOYD
The 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, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 26 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, 2:54 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.