Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 54, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2012, 8:12 PM CDT for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2012, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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, 8:17 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 E Waynesboro, TN | HAIL REPORTED ON US HIGHWAY 64 BETWEEN WAYNESBORO AND THE GILES COUNTY LINE. |
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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.
781
WFUS54 KOHX 040112
TOROHX
TNC181-040145-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0054.120604T0112Z-120604T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
812 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
* AT 807 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 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF LINDEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 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 3540 8798 3543 8801 3546 8798 3547 8765
3544 8765 3544 8762 3540 8758 3518 8758
3534 8802 3535 8801 3537 8803 3539 8803
TIME...MOT...LOC 0112Z 291DEG 20KT 3543 8798
$$
TB121 follow-up statement
359
WWUS54 KOHX 040128
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
828 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012
TNC181-040145-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0054.000000T0000Z-120604T0145Z/
WAYNE TN-
828 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY
UNTIL 845 PM CDT...
AT 822 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH.
AT 8:19 PM CDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3540 8798 3543 8801 3546 8798 3547 8765
3544 8765 3544 8762 3540 8758 3518 8758
3534 8802 3535 8801 3537 8803 3539 8803
TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 291DEG 20KT 3540 8788
$$
TB12The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 35 min |
| 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, 8:22 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.