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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 6:15 PM CST for Coffee County, Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 2, 2012, 6:15 PM CST (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coffee County, TN, Warren County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:25 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 11 Nw Manchester, TN | QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED 6ENE WARTRACE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1382 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
571
WFUS54 KOHX 030015
TOROHX
TNC031-177-030045-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0041.120303T0015Z-120303T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
615 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN COFFEE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 645 PM CST
* AT 612 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANCHESTER...AND MOVING EAST
AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MCMINNVILLE AND MORRISON.
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 3548 8625 3560 8624 3572 8576 3558 8570
3546 8624
TIME...MOT...LOC 0015Z 250DEG 46KT 3556 8614
$$
041 follow-up statement
831
WWUS54 KOHX 030033
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
633 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
TNC031-030042-
/O.CAN.KOHX.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-120303T0045Z/
COFFEE TN-
633 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN COFFEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 3555 8591 3555 8592 3558 8595 3559 8596
3561 8595 3566 8599 3572 8576 3558 8570
3554 8590
TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 250DEG 46KT 3563 8589
$$
TNC177-030045-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-120303T0045Z/
WARREN TN-
633 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTY
UNTIL 645 PM CST...
AT 628 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCMINNVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
55 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MCMINNVILLE.
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 3555 8591 3555 8592 3558 8595 3559 8596
3561 8595 3566 8599 3572 8576 3558 8570
3554 8590
TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 250DEG 46KT 3563 8589
$$
04The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 6:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Marshall, Maury | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 6:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Wayne | 18 min |
| Mar 2, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford, Warren | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 6:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 6:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren, White | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 6:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 7:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 21 min |
| Mar 2, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 7:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 38 min |
Nearby
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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.