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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN

February 24, 2011Hickman County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2011, 8:54 PM CST for Hickman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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: Feb 24, 2011, 8:54 PM CST (02:54 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2011, 9:30 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Hickman County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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
Feb 24, 9:15 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Centerville, TN	FARMERS CO-OP HAD ROOF DAMAGE. OTHER MINOR STRUCTURE DAMAGE INCLUDED GUTTERS TORN OFF HOUSES. TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN.

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
Feb 24, 2:34 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 24, 7:41 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 538 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 629 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

252 
WFUS54 KOHX 250254
TOROHX
TNC081-250330-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0004.110225T0254Z-110225T0330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
854 PM CST THU FEB 24 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HICKMAN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 930 PM CST

* AT 852 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF LINDEN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST  
  AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CENTERVILLE.

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.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND
WIDESPREAD SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE
TORNADO. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

&&

LAT...LON 3570 8774 3572 8771 3576 8773 3592 8771
      3596 8755 3600 8752 3596 8720 3581 8722
      3570 8726 3570 8730 3566 8733 3566 8737
      3562 8743 3563 8753 3566 8758 3562 8762
      3562 8765 3567 8774
TIME...MOT...LOC 0254Z 245DEG 36KT 3577 8782

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 7:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	24 min
Feb 24, 8:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart	36 min
Feb 24, 8:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry	30 min
Feb 24, 8:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart	30 min
Feb 24, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more	63 min
Feb 24, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Wayne	45 min
Feb 24, 9:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery	30 min
Feb 24, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	33 min
Feb 24, 9:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner	25 min
Feb 24, 9:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	34 min
Feb 24, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Macon, Montgomery, Robertson and 3 more	60 min
Feb 24, 9:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson	26 min
Feb 24, 9:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson	59 min
Feb 24, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne	62 min
Feb 24, 10:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning Emergency	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Wilson	28 min
Feb 24, 10:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	37 min
Feb 24, 10:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	43 min
Feb 24, 10:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett and 5 more	79 min
Feb 24, 10:27 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	3 hr
Feb 24, 10:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon	24 min
Feb 24, 10:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford	23 min
Feb 24, 10:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett and 2 more	36 min
Feb 24, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb	30 min
Feb 24, 11:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Marshall, Rutherford, Warren	42 min
Feb 24, 11:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, White	31 min
Feb 24, 11:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren	44 min
Feb 24, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	41 min
Feb 24, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	35 min
Feb 24, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam	50 min
Feb 25, 12:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	23 min
Feb 25, 1:25 AM CST	River Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford	6 days

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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.