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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN

January 30, 20134 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 2013, 2:23 AM CST for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 37 min. 3 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, 2:23 AM CST (08:23 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 2013, 3:00 AM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Perry County, TN, Wayne County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:23 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
Jan 30, 2:32 AM CST	TORNADO	6 N Waynesboro, TN	AN EF-1 TORNADO WAS SURVEYED NORTH OF WAYNESBORO ON HARRIS RD.
Jan 30, 2:55 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	5 Se Hohenwald, TN	A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN AND POWER OUTAGES IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY ON MORRIS AND LONG BRANCH ROAD.
Jan 30, 3:00 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Hohenwald, TN	SEVERAL TREES DOWNED ACROSS THE COUNTY WITH POWER OUTAGES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY WITH SOME STRUCTURE DAMAGE ESPECIALLY IN HOHENWALD ON RUSH BRANCH ROAD.

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 29, 10:07 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

883 
WFUS54 KOHX 300823
TOROHX
TNC099-101-135-181-300900-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0007.130130T0823Z-130130T0900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
223 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  WESTERN LEWIS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 300 AM CST

* AT 220 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF OLIVE HILL...OR 12 MILES
  WEST OF WAYNESBORO...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WAYNESBORO AROUND 230 AM CST.
  HOHENWALD AROUND 250 AM CST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3514 8799 3529 8799 3530 8802 3534 8802
      3535 8801 3539 8803 3539 8800 3541 8798
      3543 8804 3546 8804 3563 8756 3562 8743
      3512 8748
TIME...MOT...LOC 0823Z 248DEG 45KT 3535 8790

$$

07

1 follow-up statement

123 
WWUS54 KOHX 300842
SVSOHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
242 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013

TNC099-101-135-181-300900-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-130130T0900Z/
PERRY TN-WAYNE TN-LAWRENCE TN-LEWIS TN-
242 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN LEWIS...
NORTHWESTERN LAWRENCE...NORTHERN WAYNE AND SOUTHEASTERN PERRY
COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM CST...

AT 237 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST 
AT 50 MPH.

THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HOHENWALD AROUND 250 AM CST.

LAT...LON 3514 8799 3522 8797 3518 8799 3525 8796
      3523 8793 3533 8792 3541 8787 3553 8784
      3563 8756 3562 8743 3512 8748
TIME...MOT...LOC 0842Z 248DEG 45KT 3544 8763

$$

07

The 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, 2:33 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, 5:30 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.