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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2012, 4:28 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Warren County, White County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 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), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.
871 WFUS54 KOHX 172128 TOROHX TNC175-177-185-172200- /O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0062.120917T2128Z-120917T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 428 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... NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... SOUTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 420 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MCMINNVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DOYLE. 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 3595 8553 3583 8535 3571 8562 3577 8569 TIME...MOT...LOC 2128Z 223DEG 17KT 3579 8561 $$ 13
1 follow-up statement
208 WWUS54 KOHX 172151 SVSOHX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 451 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2012 TNC175-177-185-172201- /O.EXP.KOHX.TO.W.0062.000000T0000Z-120917T2200Z/ VAN BUREN TN-WARREN TN-WHITE TN- 451 PM CDT MON SEP 17 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN WHITE...NORTHEASTERN WARREN AND NORTHWESTERN VAN BUREN COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM CDT... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3595 8553 3583 8535 3571 8562 3577 8569 TIME...MOT...LOC 2151Z 223DEG 17KT 3587 8552 $$ 13
The 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, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren, White | 33 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, 4:43 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 |
Nearby
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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.