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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 17, 2012, 12:56 PM CST for Davidson County, Rutherford County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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
- Jan 17, 2012, 12:56 PM CST (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2012, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Davidson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 587 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 687 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
282
WFUS54 KOHX 171856
TOROHX
TNC037-149-187-171930-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0002.120117T1856Z-120117T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1256 PM CST TUE JAN 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHWESTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHEASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 130 PM CST
* AT 1255 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOREST HILLS...OR 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF FRANKLIN...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BELLE MEADE...FOREST HILLS...BRENTWOOD...OAK HILL...LA VERGNE AND
BERRY HILL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3617 8657 3613 8655 3596 8653 3594 8697
3613 8696 3618 8657
TIME...MOT...LOC 1856Z 263DEG 57KT 3604 8690
$$
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 10:18 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Benton, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 57 min |
| Jan 17, 11:16 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart | 59 min |
| Jan 17, 11:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys | 42 min |
| Jan 17, 11:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Maury, Williamson | 51 min |
| Jan 17, 12:07 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Macon, Perry and 3 more | 53 min |
| Jan 17, 12:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 12 min |
| Jan 17, 12:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Clay, Davidson, DeKalb, Jackson, Lewis, Macon and 8 more | 61 min |
| Jan 17, 1:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 20 min |
| Jan 17, 1:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Van Buren, Warren | 61 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.