Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 52, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2012, 7:10 PM CDT for Perry County, Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 3, 2012, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2012, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Perry County, TN, Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 5 N Clifton, TN | REPORTED IN WHITE OAK COMMUNITY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
886
WFUS54 KOHX 040010
TOROHX
TNC135-181-040045-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0052.120604T0010Z-120604T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
710 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DECATURVILLE...OR 14 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF LINDEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO.
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 3549 8799 3553 8798 3555 8800 3554 8773
3550 8771 3548 8772 3548 8769 3541 8765
3529 8767 3536 8802 3539 8803 3541 8798
3542 8802 3546 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 279DEG 18KT 3545 8797
$$
131 follow-up statement
126
WWUS54 KOHX 040027
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
727 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012
TNC135-181-040045-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0052.000000T0000Z-120604T0045Z/
PERRY TN-WAYNE TN-
727 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN WAYNE AND
SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT...
AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3549 8799 3553 8798 3555 8800 3554 8773
3550 8771 3548 8772 3548 8769 3541 8765
3529 8767 3536 8802 3539 8803 3541 8798
3542 8802 3546 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 0027Z 283DEG 15KT 3543 8791
$$
13The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Perry | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Maury, Perry | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Perry | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Maury | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 12 min |
| Jun 3, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Giles | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 10:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lewis, Maury, Perry | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 11:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence | 62 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.