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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Dec 21, 2013, 10:12 PM CST for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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
- Dec 21, 2013, 10:12 PM CST (04:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2013, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bedford County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 10:17 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Chapel Hill, TN | A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 5:46 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Dec 21, 8:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 587 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 694 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
594 WFUS54 KOHX 220412 TOROHX TNC003-117-119-149-187-220445- /O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0048.131222T0412Z-131222T0445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1012 PM CST SAT DEC 21 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... EAST CENTRAL MAURY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... SOUTHEASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... * UNTIL 1045 PM CST * AT 1009 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEWISBURG...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CHAPEL HILL...UNIONVILLE...EAGLEVILLE...ROVER...DEASON AND ROCKVALE. 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 3585 8660 3559 8637 3547 8683 3556 8691 TIME...MOT...LOC 0412Z 239DEG 36KT 3553 8683 $$ 21
1 follow-up statement
936 WWUS54 KOHX 220422 SVSOHX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1022 PM CST SAT DEC 21 2013 TNC003-117-119-149-187-220445- /O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-131222T0445Z/ RUTHERFORD TN-WILLIAMSON TN-BEDFORD TN-MARSHALL TN-MAURY TN- 1022 PM CST SAT DEC 21 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL MAURY... NORTHERN MARSHALL...NORTHWESTERN BEDFORD...SOUTHEASTERN WILLIAMSON AND SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 PM CST... AT 1020 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEWISBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DEASON...UNIONVILLE...ROVER...ROCKVALE...EAGLEVILLE AND CHAPEL HILL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL TENNESSEE. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR CENTRAL TENNESSEE. LAT...LON 3585 8660 3559 8637 3547 8683 3556 8691 TIME...MOT...LOC 0422Z 238DEG 44KT 3564 8663 $$ 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 24 min |
| Dec 21, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys, Perry | 22 min |
| Dec 21, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 34 min |
| Dec 21, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 30 min |
| Dec 21, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 36 min |
| Dec 21, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 42 min |
| Dec 21, 8:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Montgomery, Robertson | 39 min |
| Dec 21, 8:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Humphreys, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Dec 21, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury and 3 more | 36 min |
| Dec 21, 8:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Williamson | 33 min |
| Dec 21, 8:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Sumner, Williamson | 24 min |
| Dec 21, 8:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 37 min |
| Dec 21, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne and 1 more | 40 min |
| Dec 21, 9:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 32 min |
| Dec 21, 9:15 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 45 min |
| Dec 21, 9:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale | 39 min |
| Dec 21, 9:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury and 3 more | 38 min |
| Dec 21, 9:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 22 min |
| Dec 21, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Trousdale | 37 min |
| Dec 21, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 49 min |
| Dec 21, 10:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, DeKalb, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall and 3 more | 36 min |
| Dec 21, 10:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 36 min |
| Dec 21, 10:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 27 min |
| Dec 21, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Smith | 30 min |
| Dec 21, 10:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett | 26 min |
| Dec 21, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, DeKalb, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall and 2 more | 48 min |
| Dec 21, 10:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Smith | 31 min |
| Dec 21, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 31 min |
| Dec 21, 11:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Putnam, Rutherford and 2 more | 43 min |
| Dec 21, 11:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam | 59 min |
| Dec 21, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Overton, Putnam, Van Buren and 2 more | 39 min |
| Dec 21, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 46 min |
| Dec 22, 12:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Putnam, Van Buren, White | 47 min |
| Dec 22, 12:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 14 min |
| Dec 22, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 31 min |
| Dec 22, 1:59 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Grundy | 10 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.