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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2012, 3:57 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Warren County, White County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 17, 2012, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2012, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
694
WFUS54 KOHX 172057
TOROHX
TNC175-177-185-172130-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0059.120917T2057Z-120917T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
357 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN VAN BUREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
EASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
* AT 352 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MCMINNVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN WARREN...NORTHWESTERN VAN BUREN AND
SOUTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTIES.
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 3567 8585 3584 8571 3583 8565 3585 8564
3585 8567 3588 8564 3589 8566 3590 8564
3578 8543 3560 8570
TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 225DEG 14KT 3567 8574
$$
TB121 follow-up statement
319
WWUS54 KOHX 172108
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
408 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2012
TNC175-177-185-172130-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-120917T2130Z/
VAN BUREN TN-WARREN TN-WHITE TN-
408 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN WHITE...
NORTHEASTERN WARREN AND NORTHWESTERN VAN BUREN COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM
CDT...
AT 406 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MCMINNVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN WARREN...NORTHWESTERN VAN BUREN AND
SOUTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3563 8564 3563 8566 3572 8579 3584 8571
3583 8565 3585 8564 3585 8567 3589 8564
3589 8566 3590 8564 3578 8543
TIME...MOT...LOC 2108Z 225DEG 14KT 3570 8570
$$
TB12The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2:48 AM CDT | Flood Watch | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 23 more | 27 hr |
| Sep 17, 11:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 17, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 29 min |
| Sep 17, 2:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 2:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford, Williamson | 6 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 35 min |
| Sep 17, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Warren | 34 min |
| Sep 17, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 54 min |
| Sep 17, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Warren, White | 34 min |
| Sep 17, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren, White | 32 min |
| Sep 17, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 6:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Jackson, Overton, Putnam and 2 more | 4 hr |
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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.