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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Nashville, TN

November 29, 2016Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 29, 2016, 8:44 PM CST for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 16 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: Nov 29, 2016, 8:44 PM CST (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Nov 29, 2016, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Giles County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 29, 6:47 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

197 
WFUS54 KOHX 300244
TOROHX
TNC055-300300-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0019.161130T0244Z-161130T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
844 PM CST TUE NOV 29 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GILES COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 900 PM CST
    
* AT 844 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER ARDMORE...OR 14 MILES NORTH OF ATHENS...
  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 TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  SOUTHEASTERN GILES COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
  ARDMORE AND ELKTON.

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 3499 8698 3500 8701 3509 8683 3499 8684
TIME...MOT...LOC 0244Z 238DEG 40KT 3500 8687 

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

$$

SHAMBURGER

1 follow-up statement

096 
WWUS54 KOHX 300254
SVSOHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
854 PM CST TUE NOV 29 2016

TNC055-300304-
/O.EXP.KOHX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-161130T0300Z/
GILES TN-
854 PM CST TUE NOV 29 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GILES COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
900 PM CST...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR MIDDLE
TENNESSEE.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
NASHVILLE.

LAT...LON 3499 8698 3500 8701 3509 8683 3499 8684
TIME...MOT...LOC 0254Z 238DEG 40KT 3505 8677 

$$

SHAMBURGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 29, 7:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Maury	34 min
Nov 29, 8:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Giles	27 min
Nov 29, 8:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	42 min
Nov 29, 8:51 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Warren	24 min
Nov 29, 8:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	33 min
Nov 29, 9:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Warren	33 min
Nov 29, 10:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy	26 min
Nov 29, 10:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	18 min
Nov 29, 10:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy, Van Buren, Warren	33 min
Nov 29, 11:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy	51 min
Nov 30, 1:40 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Bedford, Coffee, Grundy, Warren	2 hr
Nov 30, 2:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	35 min
Nov 30, 2:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cumberland	11 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.