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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN

January 22, 2012Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 2012, 11:53 PM CST for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 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 22, 2012, 11:53 PM CST (05:53 UTC)
Expired
Jan 23, 2012, 12:30 AM CST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Wayne County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 22, 10:59 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2012-01-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2012-01-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 337 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
337 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
371 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

505 
WFUS54 KOHX 230553
TOROHX
TNC181-230630-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0005.120123T0553Z-120123T0630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1153 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 1230 AM CST

* AT 1147 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PICKWICK DAM...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF
  SAVANNAH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WAYNESBORO AROUND 1220 AM CST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3529 8799 3530 8802 3532 8802 3549 8772
      3548 8770 3524 8757 3509 8799
TIME...MOT...LOC 0553Z 239DEG 55KT 3514 8816

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 11:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart7 min
Jan 22, 11:40 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementOHXCheatham, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and 7 more50 min
Jan 22, 11:56 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementOHXCheatham, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and 7 more64 min
Jan 23, 12:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys43 min
Jan 23, 12:25 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXHickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne20 min
Jan 23, 12:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 3 more47 min
Jan 23, 12:40 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementOHXCheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Lawrence and 12 more50 min
Jan 23, 12:40 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery35 min
Jan 23, 12:53 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson37 min
Jan 23, 12:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury15 min
Jan 23, 1:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Macon, Robertson and 5 more32 min
Jan 23, 1:21 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Williamson39 min
Jan 23, 1:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson25 min
Jan 23, 1:37 AM CSTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson23 min
Jan 23, 1:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Davidson, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Sumner and 3 more34 min
Jan 23, 2:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Putnam, Rutherford and 3 more36 min
Jan 23, 2:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Coffee28 min
Jan 23, 2:46 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Overton and 3 more59 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.