Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2001, 6:50 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2001, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 072351 SVRBNA TNC125-080015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 650 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CLARKSVILLE * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLARKSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER GUTHRIE AT 655 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL..w.AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. $$ JBW
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 May 7, 1:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 1:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 145 PM CDT MON MAY 7 2001 SURFACE FRONT DOWN THROUGH CENTRAL ARKANSAS AT EARLY AFTERNOON. LOOKING AT KNQA DOPPLER SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND IN THE MEMPHIS AREA. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE POPPED UP IN PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE MAINLY WESTERN AREAS. MODELS IN AGREEMENT IN BRINGING UPPER TROF EASTWARD TONIGHT WITH GOOD UPWARD VERTICAL MOITION OVER THE AREA. WILL MENTION A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG TONIGHT WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. FRONTAL SYSTEM WORKS EASTWARD AND INTO WESTERN TENNESSEE BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE ABOUT NASHVILLE AROUND 12Z TUESDAY. MODELS HAVE FRONT ON PLATEAU AND ACROSS SOUTHERN MIDDLE LATE AFTERNOON TUESDAY. WILL GO CATEGORICAL FOR TONIGHT MUCH OF MIDDLE WITH LIKELY ON PLATEAU. WILL KEEP A POP GOING TUESDAY MORNING EXCEPT FOR FAR WESTERN GROUP WITH LIKELY ON PLATEAU MOST OF DAY. WILL KEEP SMALL POP GOING EARLY TUESDAY NIGHT FOR PLATEAU GROUP. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: NASHVILLE 58 73 52 77 55 8500 CROSSVILLE 57 66 50 74 53 7730 .BNA...NONE. BOYD 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 23 min |
| May 7, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Robertson | 31 min |
| May 7, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 33 min |
| May 7, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.