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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Nashville, TN

January 30, 20134 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 2013, 2:33 AM CST for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 42 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, 2:33 AM CST (08:33 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 2013, 3:15 AM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Dickson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Perry County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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, 2:35 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	10 W Centerville, TN	ROOF WAS REPORTED OFF A HOUSE AND VEHICLE DAMAGE WAS ALSO REPORTED IN THE COBLE COMMUNITY.
Jan 30, 2:35 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	8 W Centerville, TN	AT LEAST 15 HOUSES DAMAGED....SOME DESTROYED ALONG HWY 438....FROM HWY 50 WEST TO THE PERRY COUNTY LINE
Jan 30, 2:45 AM CST	TORNADO	4 Ssw White Bluff, TN	NWS STORM SURVEY TEAM CONFIRMED THAT AN EF0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ALONG WHITE BLUFF RD IN SOUTHEAST DICKSON COUNTY AROUND 245 AM WHERE MINOR TREE AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE OCCURRED. THIS TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST TO KINGSTON SPRINGS IN SOUTHERN CHEATHAM COUNTY WH

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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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.

624 
WFUS54 KOHX 300833
TOROHX
TNC043-081-101-135-300915-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0008.130130T0833Z-130130T0915Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN DICKSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  HICKMAN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  NORTHWESTERN LEWIS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  NORTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 315 AM CST

* AT 232 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 CENTERVILLE...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CENTERVILLE AROUND 240 AM CST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3584 8779 3584 8772 3589 8771 3609 8718
      3599 8719 3597 8721 3592 8720 3573 8723
      3572 8726 3571 8725 3570 8726 3570 8729
      3564 8733 3555 8768
TIME...MOT...LOC 0833Z 243DEG 43KT 3577 8756

$$

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1 follow-up statement

554 
WWUS54 KOHX 300905
SVSOHX

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

TNC043-081-101-135-300914-
/O.CAN.KOHX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-130130T0915Z/
PERRY TN-DICKSON TN-HICKMAN TN-LEWIS TN-
305 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN LEWIS...HICKMAN...
SOUTHEASTERN DICKSON AND NORTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED ACROSS
THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3584 8779 3584 8772 3589 8771 3609 8718
      3599 8719 3597 8721 3592 8720 3573 8723
      3572 8726 3571 8725 3570 8726 3570 8729
      3564 8733 3555 8768
TIME...MOT...LOC 0904Z 243DEG 43KT 3594 8715

$$

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, 2:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne	37 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.