Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 6:44 PM CDT for Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2001, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Countywide, TN | Sheriff reported trees were down around the county. |
| Jun 21, 7:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, TN | Sheriff reported trees down around the county. The hardest hit area was Winchester. A newspaper article said that a boat owned by Franklin County Chancellor Jeff Stewart, had a very large tree resting across the middle of it. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 212346 SVRBNA TNC051-103-127-220030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 644 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WINCHESTER EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY MOORE COUNTY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF HUNTLAND...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIANVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUNTLAND AT 710 PM CDT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LYNCHBURG...9 MILES WEST OF ESTILL SPRINGS AT 730 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTOR8M WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE. $$ JAO LAT...LON 3503 8665 3490 8649 3512 8591 3540 8630
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Perry | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 51 min |
| Jun 21, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 40 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.