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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Nashville, TN

March 2, 2012Fentress County, Overton County, Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 5:54 PM CST for Fentress County, Overton County, Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 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: Mar 2, 2012, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2012, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Emergency: Tornado emergency

Counties Fentress County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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.

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 2, 1:20 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

071 
WFUS54 KOHX 022354
TOROHX
TNC049-133-137-030030-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0039.120302T2354Z-120303T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
554 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FENTRESS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  NORTHEASTERN OVERTON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  PICKETT COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 549 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  RICKMAN...OR 6 MILES EAST OF LIVINGSTON. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED
  THIS TORNADO MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

  AT 552 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON
  THE GROUND IN RICKMAN. TWO HOMES WERE REPORTEDLY DESTROYED WITH
  THIS STORM EARLIER IN JACKSON COUNTY.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  JAMESTOWN AROUND 610 PM CST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE ALLARDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 3636 8470 3637 8472 3635 8473 3633 8477
      3631 8479 3628 8525 3645 8533 3663 8498
      3661 8479 3654 8473 3643 8469 3641 8466
      3640 8466
TIME...MOT...LOC 2352Z 251DEG 44KT 3639 8517

$$

SHAMBURGER

1 follow-up statement

499 
WWUS54 KOHX 030000
SVSOHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
600 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

TNC049-133-137-030030-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-120303T0030Z/
OVERTON TN-PICKETT TN-FENTRESS TN-
600 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FENTRESS...PICKETT AND
NORTHEASTERN OVERTON COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CST...

...TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR JAMESTOWN AND NEARBY LOCATIONS...

AT 558 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
CONFIRMED TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF
JAMESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  JAMESTOWN AROUND 605 PM CST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADO INCLUDE ALLARDT.

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 3636 8470 3637 8472 3635 8473 3633 8477
      3631 8479 3628 8525 3645 8533 3663 8498
      3661 8479 3654 8473 3643 8469 3641 8466
      3640 8466
TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 253DEG 46KT 3641 8504

$$

SHAMBURGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 4:00 AM CST	Wind Advisory	OHX	Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 33 more	17 hr
Mar 2, 5:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	25 min
Mar 2, 5:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Robertson	18 min
Mar 2, 6:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson	15 min
Mar 2, 6:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Trousdale	12 min
Mar 2, 6:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	23 min
Mar 2, 6:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Macon	16 min
Mar 2, 8:25 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Rutherford	20 min
Mar 2, 9:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles	30 min
Mar 2, 9:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith, Wilson	10 min
Mar 2, 9:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Overton, Putnam, White	33 min
Mar 2, 9:51 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Warren	24 min
Mar 2, 9:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton, Putnam	32 min
Mar 2, 10:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren	33 min
Mar 2, 11:12 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	OHX	Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 33 more	10 hr
Mar 2, 1:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 12 more	54 min
Mar 2, 1:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	24 min
Mar 2, 2:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles	27 min
Mar 2, 2:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	33 min
Mar 2, 2:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	20 min
Mar 2, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	26 min
Mar 2, 2:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Dickson, Humphreys	44 min
Mar 2, 2:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren	38 min
Mar 2, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys	44 min
Mar 2, 3:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	23 min
Mar 2, 3:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson	42 min
Mar 2, 3:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	39 min
Mar 2, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	37 min
Mar 2, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy	32 min
Mar 2, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Williamson	28 min
Mar 2, 3:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	32 min
Mar 2, 4:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson	50 min
Mar 2, 4:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	27 min
Mar 2, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Macon, Robertson, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 more	51 min
Mar 2, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Wayne	35 min
Mar 2, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Robertson, Williamson	32 min
Mar 2, 4:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson	32 min
Mar 2, 4:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	33 min
Mar 2, 5:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury	28 min
Mar 2, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Putnam and 1 more	47 min
Mar 2, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury, Williamson	21 min
Mar 2, 5:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne	34 min
Mar 2, 5:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Maury	23 min
Mar 2, 5:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Pickett	50 min
Mar 2, 5:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford	34 min
Mar 2, 5:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury	46 min
Mar 2, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	28 min
Mar 2, 5:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury	31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.