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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN

January 30, 20135 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 2013, 2:51 AM CST for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 39 min. 11 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, 2:51 AM CST (08:51 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 2013, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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, 2:52 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Kingston Springs, TN	4 FOOT DIAMETER OAK TREE COMPLETELY GONE ALONG PINE BLUFF RD.
Jan 30, 2:53 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Kingston Springs, TN	POWER LINES DOWN IN KINGSTON SPRINGS...ALSO A FALLEN TREE REPORTED ON A BUILDING
Jan 30, 2:59 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	7 S Fairview, TN	A NWS STORM SURVEY FOUND WIND DAMAGE ALONG PINEWOOD RD EAST OF WALKER HILL RD IN WESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY. ONE BARN WAS DAMAGED AND SEVERAL TREES WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. WINDS ESTIMATED AROUND 75 MPH.
Jan 30, 3:08 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Belle Meade, TN	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN BLOCKING ROADWAYS
Jan 30, 3:08 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Fairview, TN	NUMEROUS TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN FAIRVIEW.
Jan 30, 3:09 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	2 W Belle Meade, TN	TREE DOWN ACROSS JOCELYN HOLLOW RD.
Jan 30, 3:15 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	1 W Franklin, TN	A NWS STORM SURVEY FOUND A ONE HALF MILE WIDE AREA OF WIND DAMAGE FROM AROUND 1 MI WEST OF DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN INTO THE DOWNTOWN AREA. SCATTERED TREES...POWER LINES...AND LIGHT POLES WERE BLOWN DOWN. WINDS ESTIMATED AROUND 70 MPH.
Jan 30, 3:18 AM CST	TORNADO	Franklin, TN	AN NWS STORM SURVEY CONFIRMED AN EF0 TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN JUST EAST OF DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN. THE TORNADO DAMAGED FOUR BUSINESSES ALONG FORT GRANGER DRIVE AND EDDY LANE. PASSING JUST NORTH OF LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL...THE TORNADO THEN CAUSED MINOR ROOF D
Jan 30, 3:19 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Franklin, TN	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY INCLUDING SEVERAL TREES ON HOMES IN THE CITY OF FRANKLIN.
Jan 30, 3:20 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	2 E Franklin, TN	A NWS STORM SURVEY FOUND A LARGE AREA OF SCATTERED WIND DAMAGE FROM MALLORY LANE TO WILSON PIKE. TWO SCHOOLS AND SEVERAL HOMES RECEIVED ROOF DAMAGE IN THE AREA AND SCATTERED TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN. WINDS ESTIMATED AROUND 70 MPH.
Jan 30, 3:28 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	White Bluff, TN	ROOF MISSING ON HOUSE IN WHITE BLUFF

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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 15 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

961 
WFUS54 KOHX 300851
TOROHX
TNC021-037-043-081-187-300930-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0009.130130T0851Z-130130T0930Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL CHEATHAM COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  SOUTHEASTERN DICKSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  NORTHEASTERN HICKMAN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
  NORTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 330 AM CST

* AT 246 AM CST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  MULTIPLE TORNADOES WAS LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WHITE
  BLUFF TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAIRVIEW. TORNADOES MAY FORM RAPIDLY
  ANYWHERE IN THIS LINE OF STORMS. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST
  AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FRANKLIN...FAIRVIEW...KINGSTON SPRINGS...PEGRAM...BELLE MEADE...
  FOREST HILLS...OAK HILL...BRENTWOOD...NOLENSVILLE AND BERRY 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3614 8655 3613 8653 3602 8658 3601 8662
      3597 8661 3597 8662 3585 8665 3585 8733
      3612 8721 3617 8657
TIME...MOT...LOC 0851Z 265DEG 45KT 3605 8713 3590 8721

$$

SHAMBURGER

1 follow-up statement

723 
WWUS54 KOHX 300908
SVSOHX

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

TNC021-043-081-300918-
/O.CAN.KOHX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-130130T0930Z/
DICKSON TN-CHEATHAM TN-HICKMAN TN-
308 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN HICKMAN...SOUTH CENTRAL
CHEATHAM AND SOUTHEASTERN DICKSON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE 
WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3614 8655 3613 8653 3602 8658 3601 8662
      3597 8661 3597 8662 3585 8665 3585 8711
      3604 8704 3609 8704 3614 8699 3617 8657
TIME...MOT...LOC 0908Z 265DEG 45KT 3606 8687 3592 8695

$$

TNC037-187-300930-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-130130T0930Z/
WILLIAMSON TN-DAVIDSON TN-
308 AM CST WED JAN 30 2013

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN DAVIDSON AND
NORTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM CST...

AT 305 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THESE
DANGEROUS STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BELLE MEADE
TO 9 MILES WEST OF FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FRANKLIN...BELLE MEADE...FOREST HILLS...OAK HILL...BRENTWOOD...
  NOLENSVILLE AND BERRY 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.

&&

LAT...LON 3614 8655 3613 8653 3602 8658 3601 8662
      3597 8661 3597 8662 3585 8665 3585 8711
      3604 8704 3609 8704 3614 8699 3617 8657
TIME...MOT...LOC 0908Z 265DEG 45KT 3606 8687 3592 8695

$$

SHAMBURGER

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, 2:33 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, 2:53 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

Nearby

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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.