Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 13, 2013, 3:42 PM CST for Rutherford County, Wilson 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
- Jan 13, 2013, 3:42 PM CST (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2013, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Rutherford County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
324
WFUS54 KOHX 132142
TOROHX
TNC149-189-132215-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0003.130113T2142Z-130113T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
342 PM CST SUN JAN 13 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTH CENTRAL WILSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 415 PM CST
* AT 334 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF NOLENSVILLE...OR 16 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MURFREESBORO AND WALTERHILL.
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 3590 8615 3570 8662 3577 8666 3579 8666
3579 8662 3580 8661 3581 8662 3582 8662
3583 8663 3584 8660 3585 8660 3610 8635
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 229DEG 53KT 3581 8654
$$
191 follow-up statement
769
WWUS54 KOHX 132207
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
407 PM CST SUN JAN 13 2013
TNC149-189-132215-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-130113T2215Z/
RUTHERFORD TN-WILSON TN-
407 PM CST SUN JAN 13 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WILSON AND
NORTHEASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CST...
AT 405 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF WALTERHILL...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF MURFREESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3590 8615 3582 8633 3582 8635 3582 8637
3584 8638 3585 8641 3587 8639 3589 8645
3591 8643 3596 8649 3610 8635
TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 229DEG 48KT 3600 8626
$$
BOYDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 5:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 8:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 8:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Humphreys | 38 min |
| Jan 13, 9:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 45 min |
| Jan 13, 9:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 24 min |
| Jan 13, 10:07 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Robertson | 53 min |
| Jan 13, 10:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 31 min |
| Jan 13, 10:45 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Hickman, Robertson, Williamson | 60 min |
| Jan 13, 10:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Perry and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 13, 10:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Jan 13, 11:26 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 49 min |
| Jan 13, 12:23 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Macon, Trousdale | 37 min |
| Jan 13, 12:55 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Cheatham | 36 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:16 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 44 min |
| Jan 13, 1:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Davidson, Macon, Sumner, Trousdale | 35 min |
| Jan 13, 1:49 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Davidson | 36 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:58 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Perry | 36 hr |
| Jan 13, 2:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 28 min |
| Jan 13, 2:22 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Trousdale | 38 min |
| Jan 13, 3:01 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Bedford, Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury and 3 more | 44 min |
| Jan 13, 3:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 24 min |
| Jan 13, 3:18 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Montgomery | 48 hr |
| Jan 13, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 24 min |
| Jan 13, 3:38 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Houston and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 3:43 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Montgomery and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 3:44 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Giles, Marshall, Rutherford, Wilson | 46 min |
| Jan 13, 4:01 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Davidson | 36 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:07 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, Clay, Jackson, Macon, Rutherford, Smith and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:39 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Jackson and 7 more | 51 min |
| Jan 13, 4:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Jackson and 7 more | 50 min |
| Jan 13, 5:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 34 min |
| Jan 13, 5:27 PM CST | River Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 14 hr |
| Jan 13, 5:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Grundy, Overton, Pickett, Putnam and 3 more | 45 min |
| Jan 13, 5:38 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Hickman | 6 days |
| Jan 13, 5:51 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Grundy, Hickman, Overton, Putnam and 5 more | 177 days |
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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.