Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 45, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 6:41 PM CST for Van Buren County, Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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, 6:41 PM CST (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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, 7:03 PM CST | HAIL 2 | 1 Ese Spencer, TN | CONFIRMED BY PHOTOS. LOCATION AND TIME APPROXIMATE. |
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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.
054
WFUS54 KOHX 030041
TOROHX
TNC175-177-030115-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0045.120303T0041Z-120303T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
641 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
VAN BUREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 715 PM CST
* AT 638 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCMINNVILLE...AND MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MCMINNVILLE AND SPENCER.
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 3558 8540 3555 8545 3552 8588 3554 8588
3554 8590 3555 8591 3555 8592 3559 8596
3561 8595 3568 8596 3577 8531 3568 8530
TIME...MOT...LOC 0041Z 266DEG 25KT 3560 8584
$$
041 follow-up statement
095
WWUS54 KOHX 030107
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
707 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
TNC177-030117-
/O.CAN.KOHX.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-120303T0115Z/
WARREN TN-
707 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 3559 8540 3558 8540 3555 8546 3554 8556
3562 8560 3571 8560 3573 8559 3577 8531
3568 8530
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 266DEG 25KT 3561 8562
$$
TNC175-030115-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-120303T0115Z/
VAN BUREN TN-
707 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR VAN BUREN COUNTY UNTIL 715
PM CST...
AT 703 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCMINNVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SPENCER.
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 3559 8540 3558 8540 3555 8546 3554 8556
3562 8560 3571 8560 3573 8559 3577 8531
3568 8530
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 266DEG 25KT 3561 8562
$$
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, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 30 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, 6:56 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.