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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN

July 2, 2015Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2015, 7:18 PM CDT for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 2, 2015, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2015, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 2, 7:25 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Ssw Lebanon, TN	TREES DOWN. POSSIBLE TORNADO DAMAGE.
Jul 2, 7:28 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 S Lebanon, TN	PLANKS FROM FENCE AT SPEEDWAY GAS STATION... ON HIGHWAY 231 JUST SOUTH OF I-40... BLOWN INTO PARKING LOT AND ONTO HARTMANN DRIVE. TREE LIMBS ALSO BLOWN DOWN ALONG HARTMANN DRIVE.
Jul 2, 7:36 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Se Lebanon, TN	EF0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ON SPARTA PIKE AT PEYTON ROAD THEN MOVED ACROSS THE WILSON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS BEFORE LIFTING ALONG BLUEBIRD ROAD. AN OUTBUILDING WAS DESTROYED AND BLOWN ACROSS PEYTON ROAD AND A INFORMATION BOOTH WAS DESTROYED AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. SCATT

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 28 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: 958 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

161 
WFUS54 KOHX 030018
TOROHX
TNC189-030045-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0002.150703T0018Z-150703T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
718 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WILSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
    
* AT 718 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LEBANON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  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 WILSON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...TUCKERS
  CROSSROADS.

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 3615 8637 3618 8636 3623 8614 3602 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 0018Z 286DEG 21KT 3616 8634 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

170 
WWUS54 KOHX 030034
SVSOHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
734 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2015

TNC189-030045-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150703T0045Z/
WILSON TN-
734 PM CDT THU JUL 2 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL WILSON COUNTY...
    
AT 733 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF LEBANON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO. 

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. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEBANON AND TUCKERS CROSSROADS. 

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 3615 8631 3619 8630 3623 8614 3607 8618
TIME...MOT...LOC 0033Z 273DEG 16KT 3618 8628 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Wilson	35 min
Jul 2, 7:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Overton	2 hr
Jul 2, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	30 min
Jul 2, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Smith	34 min
Jul 2, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OHX	Smith, Wilson	22 min
Jul 2, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Putnam	41 min
Jul 2, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Overton	24 min
Jul 2, 9:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Jackson, Overton, Putnam, Smith	3 hr
Jul 2, 9:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Overton	3 hr
Jul 2, 9:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Putnam, White	4 hr
Jul 2, 9:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	3 hr
Jul 2, 9:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 17 more	57 hr
Jul 3, 12:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Overton, Putnam	3 hr
Jul 3, 1:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Putnam, White	6 hr
Jul 3, 7:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton	3 hr
Jul 3, 7:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Cumberland, Putnam, White	3 hr
Jul 3, 10:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton	6 hr
Jul 3, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton	45 min
Jul 3, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton	39 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.