Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 2013, 5:30 AM CST for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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
- Jan 30, 2013, 5:30 AM CST (11:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2013, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cannon County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 5:30 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Manchester, TN | SEVERAL TREES DOWN. MINOR ROOF DAMAGE ON A BUILDING CLOSE TO THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 41 AND HWY 53. |
| Jan 30, 6:00 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Altamont, TN | A FEW TREES WERE DOWNED ACROSS THE COUNTY. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 1:46 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
345
WFUS54 KOHX 301130
TOROHX
TNC015-031-061-175-177-301215-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0025.130130T1130Z-130130T1215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
530 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL CANNON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
EASTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHERN GRUNDY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHWESTERN VAN BUREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
WARREN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 615 AM CST
* AT 529 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF MANCHESTER...AND MOVING EAST AT
50 MPH.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN
COFFEE...NORTHERN GRUNDY...SOUTH CENTRAL CANNON...SOUTHWESTERN VAN
BUREN AND WARREN COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
MORRISON AND VIOLA.
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.
TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 3542 8616 3577 8610 3571 8546 3554 8550
3552 8559 3549 8553 3546 8554 3543 8552
3536 8554
TIME...MOT...LOC 1129Z 272DEG 59KT 3557 8604
$$
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, 3:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Marshall, Maury | 34 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, 5:57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.