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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Nashville, TN

February 25, 2001Bedford County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2001, 1:34 AM CST for Bedford County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 min. 4 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: Feb 25, 2001, 1:34 AM CST (07:34 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2001, 2:15 AM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bedford County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 25, 1:45 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Countywide, TN	Highway department reported a few trees down.
Feb 25, 1:55 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Wartrace, TN	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
Feb 25, 2:00 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Fairfield, TN	Trees and power lines were down in Fairfield and Pleasant Grove.
Feb 25, 2:10 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Lynchburg, TN	Law enforcement reported a tree down on Tanyaro Rd.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 24, 11:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 498 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

542 
WUUS54 KOHX 250736
SVRBNA
TNC003-103-127-250815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
134 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBYVILLE
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE
  MOORE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG

* UNTIL 215 AM CST

* AT 133 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES EAST OF LEWISBURG TO ELKTON  
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST SUNDAY
MORNING FOR TENNESSEE.
$$

LAT...LON 3537 8662 3503 8684 3503 8637 3532 8628
          3568 8652

JDG

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 24, 9:15 PM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 9:15 PM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
915 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

UPDATED FOR TORNADO WATCH. SHIFTED MENTION OF ISOLATED SEVERE
EASTWARD TO CENTRAL MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND INCLUDES THE NASHVILLE
METRO AREA. LINE OF TSTMS SHOULD MOVE INTO THE METRO AREA JUST
BEFORE MIDNIGHT. MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED
TORNADOES.

.BNA...NONE.

JLM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 25, 1:16 AM CST, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
116 AM CST SUN FEB 25 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1125 PM    1 MI SOUTH WAVERLY        TN   WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01   HUMPHREYS                      TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN

1120 PM    5 SW LOBELVILLE           TN   60 MPH MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/24/01   PERRY                          TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          WINDS WELL IN EXCESS OF 50
                                          MPH

1145 PM    1W WHITE BLUFF            TN   WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01   DICKSON                        TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN

1150 PM    4SE DICKSON               TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/24/01   DICKSON                        TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          WINDS WELL IN EXCESS OF 50
                                          MPH

1130 PM    CLARKSVILLE               TN   WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01   MONTGOMERY                     LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          POWER LINES DOWN ON WILMA
                                          RUDOLPH BLVD

1220 AM    4W VANLEER                TN   WIND DAMAGE
02/25/01   DICKSON                        LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          TREES BLOWN DOWN ON YELLOW
                                          CREEK

1222 AM    ASHLAND CITY              TN   WIND DAMAGE
02/25/01   CHEATHAM                       TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          TREES BLOWN DOWN

1230 AM    4NW LAWRENCEBURG          TN   1.00 INCH HAIL
02/25/01   LAWRENCE                       TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          HAIL REPORTED NEAR THE TOWN
                                          OF DEERFIELD

1240 AM    2NW COLUMBIA              TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/25/01   MAURY                          TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          60 MPH WIND GUST

1240 AM    MOUNT PLEASANT            TN   WIND DAMAGE
02/25/01   MAURY                          LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          TREES BLOWN DOWN

1250 AM    3SW LORETTO               TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/25/01   LAWRENCE                       TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          60 MPH WIND GUST

0110 AM    LA VERGNE                 TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
02/25/01   RUTHERFORD                     TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          60 MPH WIND GUST

0110 AM    LA VERGNE                 TN   .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/01   RUTHERFORD

0115 AM    8E HOHENWALD              TN   WIND DAMAGE
02/25/01   LEWIS                          TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN

0115 AM    LA VERGNE                 TN   WIND DAMAGE
02/25/01   RUTHERFORD                     LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
                                          POWER LINES DOWN

0135 AM    WATERTOWN                 TN   .75 INCH HAIL
02/25/01   WILSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 10:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	30 min
Feb 24, 10:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	30 min
Feb 24, 10:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys, Perry	37 min
Feb 24, 11:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman	33 min
Feb 24, 11:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	33 min
Feb 24, 11:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston	33 min
Feb 24, 11:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Lewis, Perry	36 min
Feb 24, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	40 min
Feb 24, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery	40 min
Feb 24, 11:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Maury, Williamson	42 min
Feb 25, 12:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	36 min
Feb 25, 12:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	40 min
Feb 25, 12:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	23 min
Feb 25, 12:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lewis, Maury	32 min
Feb 25, 12:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	25 min
Feb 25, 12:53 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Williamson	27 min
Feb 25, 12:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	47 min
Feb 25, 1:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford	22 min
Feb 25, 1:15 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	25 min
Feb 25, 1:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith	30 min
Feb 25, 1:41 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon	29 min
Feb 25, 2:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin	33 min
Feb 25, 2:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy, Warren	38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.