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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2012, 4:14 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 18 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 31, 2012, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2012, 4:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Giles County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 31, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
174 WFUS54 KOHX 312114 TOROHX TNC055-312145- /O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0049.120331T2114Z-120331T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 414 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GILES COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 414 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PULASKI...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MINOR HILL. 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 3500 8702 3500 8721 3509 8722 3511 8708 TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 345DEG 10KT 3507 8715 $$ 31
1 follow-up statement
019 WWUS54 KOHX 312132 SVSOHX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 432 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012 TNC055-312142- /O.CAN.KOHX.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-120331T2145Z/ GILES TN- 432 PM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN GILES COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3500 8702 3500 8721 3509 8722 3511 8708 TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 345DEG 10KT 3502 8713 $$ 31
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Williamson | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall, Maury | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Van Buren, White | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall, Maury | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 16 min |
| Mar 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Van Buren, White | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Maury | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 3:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Perry | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 19 min |
| Mar 31, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 20 min |
| Mar 31, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 14 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.