Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2001, 10:53 PM CST for Benton County, Humphreys County, Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 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
- Feb 24, 2001, 10:53 PM CST (04:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Perry County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Lobelville, TN | Spotter reported 60 mph wind gust in thunderstorm. |
| Feb 24, 11:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Waverly, TN | Spotter reported trees blown down. |
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, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KOHX 250454
SVRBNA
TNC005-085-135-250530-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1053 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BENTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAMDEN
HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAVERLY
PERRY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LINDEN
* UNTIL 1130 PM CST
* AT 1053 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES WEST OF LINDEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
JUST NORTH OF LINDEN A T 1115 PM CST
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
$$
JBW
LAT...LON 3576 8836 3557 8830 3550 8787 3564 8772
3583 8776 3610 8770 3621 8812What 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, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 9:15 PM CST, 1 hour 38 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
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, 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, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Lincoln, Moore | 41 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.