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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2014, 6:13 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 17 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
- Oct 13, 2014, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2014, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Montgomery County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
005 WFUS54 KOHX 132313 TOROHX TNC125-132330- /O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0023.141013T2313Z-141013T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 613 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 611 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLARKSVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 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. LAT...LON 3648 8725 3649 8747 3665 8747 3665 8723 TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 207DEG 65KT 3660 8732 $$ 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence | 61 min |
| Oct 12, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Oct 13, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence | 59 min |
| Oct 13, 2:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Oct 13, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 32 more | 32 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:57 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 32 more | 23 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys, Perry | 42 min |
| Oct 13, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall | 39 min |
| Oct 13, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Perry, Wayne | 47 min |
| Oct 13, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 42 min |
| Oct 13, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne | 50 min |
| Oct 13, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 47 min |
| Oct 13, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren | 29 min |
| Oct 13, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Lewis, Maury and 4 more | 65 min |
| Oct 13, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner and 2 more | 47 min |
| Oct 13, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 12 min |
| Oct 13, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery, Stewart | 42 min |
| Oct 13, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 21 min |
| Oct 13, 6:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Lewis, Perry | 6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.