Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 2013, 3:56 AM CST for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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 30, 2013, 3:56 AM CST (09:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2013, 4:30 AM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bedford County, TN, Giles County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 10:07 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 30, 1:46 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
706
WFUS54 KOHX 300956
TOROHX
TNC003-055-117-119-301030-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0019.130130T0956Z-130130T1030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
356 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHEASTERN GILES COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
MARSHALL COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHEASTERN MAURY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 430 AM CST
* AT 351 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF LEWISBURG...AND MOVING EAST AT 45
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEWISBURG AND PETERSBURG.
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 3527 8710 3560 8688 3558 8639 3536 8657
3537 8658 3536 8660 3533 8659 3532 8660
TIME...MOT...LOC 0956Z 249DEG 38KT 3549 8684
$$
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 12:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart | 49 min |
| Jan 30, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 39 min |
| Jan 30, 1:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 44 min |
| Jan 30, 1:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys, Perry | 37 min |
| Jan 30, 2:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 55 min |
| Jan 30, 2:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 38 min |
| Jan 30, 2:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 37 min |
| Jan 30, 2:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry | 42 min |
| Jan 30, 2:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson, Williamson | 35 min |
| Jan 30, 2:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury and 2 more | 44 min |
| Jan 30, 2:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson | 39 min |
| Jan 30, 2:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 37 min |
| Jan 30, 2:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Maury | 34 min |
| Jan 30, 3:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Macon, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner and 3 more | 59 min |
| Jan 30, 3:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 25 min |
| Jan 30, 3:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 29 min |
| Jan 30, 3:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury, Williamson | 44 min |
| Jan 30, 3:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury and 2 more | 64 min |
| Jan 30, 3:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson | 33 min |
| Jan 30, 3:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 40 min |
| Jan 30, 3:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Putnam and 5 more | 61 min |
| Jan 30, 3:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford, Williamson | 29 min |
| Jan 30, 3:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 37 min |
| Jan 30, 4:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton | 36 min |
| Jan 30, 4:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren | 29 min |
| Jan 30, 4:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence and 5 more | 62 min |
| Jan 30, 4:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Jackson, Overton, Putnam, Smith and 1 more | 27 min |
| Jan 30, 4:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Overton and 3 more | 78 min |
| Jan 30, 4:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren | 48 min |
| Jan 30, 4:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Grundy, Marshall | 47 min |
| Jan 30, 5:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, Grundy, Rutherford and 3 more | 66 min |
| Jan 30, 5:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 45 min |
| Jan 30, 5:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, White | 63 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.