Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 2016, 2:57 PM CST for Houston County, Humphreys County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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 2, 2016, 2:57 PM CST (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2016, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
280
WFUS54 KOHX 022057
TOROHX
TNC083-085-022130-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0001.160202T2057Z-160202T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
257 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 330 PM CST
* AT 256 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW JOHNSONVILLE...OR JUST SOUTHEAST OF
CAMDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
WAVERLY AROUND 310 PM CST.
ERIN AND TENNESSEE RIDGE AROUND 325 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 3600 8800 3603 8800 3613 8792 3617 8792
3619 8794 3624 8795 3633 8785 3633 8780
3635 8772 3618 8757 3614 8755 3594 8798
3595 8801 3597 8802
TIME...MOT...LOC 2056Z 224DEG 48KT 3604 8803
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
SHAMBURGER2 follow-up statements
483
WWUS54 KOHX 022105
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
305 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
TNC083-085-022130-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160202T2130Z/
HUMPHREYS TN-HOUSTON TN-
305 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR NORTHERN
HUMPHREYS AND CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTIES...
AT 304 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF NEW JOHNSONVILLE...OR 7 MILES WEST OF
WAVERLY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
WAVERLY AROUND 310 PM CST.
ERIN AND TENNESSEE RIDGE AROUND 325 PM CST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3600 8800 3603 8800 3613 8792 3617 8792
3619 8794 3624 8795 3633 8785 3633 8780
3635 8772 3618 8757 3614 8755 3597 8802
TIME...MOT...LOC 2104Z 228DEG 49KT 3610 8793
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
SHAMBURGER830
WWUS54 KOHX 022113
SVSOHX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
313 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
TNC083-085-022130-
/O.CON.KOHX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160202T2130Z/
HUMPHREYS TN-HOUSTON TN-
313 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR NORTHERN
HUMPHREYS AND CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTIES...
AT 313 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR WAVERLY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
MCEWEN AROUND 325 PM CST.
ERIN AND TENNESSEE RIDGE AROUND 330 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 3603 8800 3613 8792 3617 8792 3619 8794
3624 8795 3633 8785 3633 8780 3635 8772
3618 8757 3614 8755
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 231DEG 41KT 3612 8785
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
SHAMBURGERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 1:52 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 2, 2:44 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Humphreys | 46 min |
| Feb 2, 3:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Montgomery | 32 min |
| Feb 2, 4:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lewis, Wayne | 29 min |
| Feb 2, 5:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 23 min |
| Feb 2, 5:41 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence | 34 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.