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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2015, 6:07 PM CST for Humphreys County, Tennessee. It was in force for 23 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
- Dec 23, 2015, 6:07 PM CST (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2015, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.0 in
County Humphreys County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 598 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 698 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
849
WFUS54 KOHX 240007
TOROHX
TNC085-240030-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0011.151224T0007Z-151224T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
607 PM CST WED DEC 23 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 630 PM CST
* AT 607 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW JOHNSONVILLE...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CAMDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
NEW JOHNSONVILLE AROUND 615 PM CST.
CAMDEN AND HURRICANE MILLS AROUND 620 PM CST.
WAVERLY AROUND 625 PM CST.
MCEWEN AROUND 630 PM CST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3598 8802 3600 8800 3603 8800 3612 8792
3614 8792 3624 8775 3618 8763 3607 8755
3590 8793 3594 8793 3594 8798 3595 8801
3596 8802
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 238DEG 52KT 3597 8805
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
131 follow-up statement
769
WWUS54 KOHX 240023
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
623 PM CST WED DEC 23 2015
TNC085-240030-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-151224T0030Z/
HUMPHREYS TN-
623 PM CST WED DEC 23 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR CENTRAL
HUMPHREYS COUNTY...
AT 623 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER WAVERLY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
CENTRAL HUMPHREYS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3603 8796 3612 8790 3622 8774 3618 8763
3607 8755 3596 8784
TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 238DEG 52KT 3609 8780
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
13The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 6:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Houston, Humphreys | 25 min |
| Dec 23, 6:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Perry | 32 min |
| Dec 23, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery | 30 min |
| Dec 23, 6:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury | 25 min |
| Dec 23, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 27 min |
| Dec 23, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson | 25 min |
| Dec 23, 6:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson | 34 min |
| Dec 23, 6:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Williamson | 32 min |
| Dec 23, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne | 37 min |
| Dec 23, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson | 37 min |
| Dec 23, 7:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Dec 23, 7:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Robertson | 36 min |
| Dec 23, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 30 min |
| Dec 23, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Maury | 30 min |
| Dec 23, 7:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 27 min |
| Dec 23, 7:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Sumner | 45 min |
| Dec 23, 7:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 37 min |
| Dec 23, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Maury | 32 min |
| Dec 23, 8:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 36 min |
| Dec 23, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 21 min |
| Dec 23, 8:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson | 11 min |
| Dec 23, 8:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 36 min |
| Dec 23, 8:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Wayne | 27 min |
| Dec 23, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne | 17 min |
| Dec 23, 8:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 25 min |
| Dec 23, 9:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Williamson | 34 min |
| Dec 23, 9:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Dec 23, 10:22 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Jackson | 23 min |
| Dec 23, 10:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith | 36 min |
| Dec 23, 10:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 25 min |
| Dec 23, 10:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam | 37 min |
| Dec 23, 11:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Overton, Putnam, White | 29 min |
| Dec 23, 11:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 32 min |
| Dec 23, 11:25 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Fentress | 35 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.