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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 20, 2014, 9:47 PM CST for Clay County, Overton County, Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 13 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
- Feb 20, 2014, 9:47 PM CST (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2014, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clay County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 6:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 386 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
806
WFUS54 KOHX 210347
TOROHX
TNC027-133-137-210400-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0005.140221T0347Z-140221T0400Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
947 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTH CENTRAL OVERTON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
WESTERN PICKETT COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 1000 PM CST
* AT 942 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF BYRDSTOWN...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BYRDSTOWN.
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 3662 8498 3655 8504 3655 8505 3654 8504
3650 8509 3647 8536 3661 8540 3663 8498
TIME...MOT...LOC 0347Z 242DEG 51KT 3660 8521
$$
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Lewis, Perry | 56 min |
| Feb 20, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson | 26 min |
| Feb 20, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 49 min |
| Feb 20, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson | 32 min |
| Feb 20, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 16 min |
| Feb 20, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, Williamson | 45 min |
| Feb 20, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 30 min |
| Feb 20, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 35 min |
| Feb 20, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne | 47 min |
| Feb 20, 7:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson, Sumner | 44 min |
| Feb 20, 7:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 34 min |
| Feb 20, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Macon, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 more | 38 min |
| Feb 20, 8:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 36 min |
| Feb 20, 8:18 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Rutherford | 42 min |
| Feb 20, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 37 min |
| Feb 20, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 25 min |
| Feb 20, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Sumner and 2 more | 38 min |
| Feb 20, 8:52 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 38 min |
| Feb 20, 9:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 38 min |
| Feb 20, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Putnam and 2 more | 37 min |
| Feb 20, 9:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton | 36 min |
| Feb 20, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren | 35 min |
| Feb 20, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam, White | 34 min |
| Feb 20, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, White | 45 min |
| Feb 20, 10:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 27 min |
| Feb 20, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 61 min |
| Feb 20, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, DeKalb, Putnam, White | 45 min |
| Feb 20, 10:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam | 34 min |
| Feb 20, 10:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 31 min |
| Feb 20, 11:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cumberland | 56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.