Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2001, 9:37 AM CDT for Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report 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 3, 2001, 9:37 AM CDT (14:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2001, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maury County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:29 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 3, 10:06 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Spring Hill, TN | Dime size hail reported. |
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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 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 031439 SVRBNA TNC119-031530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 937 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 937 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF CENTERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... JUST WEST OF SPRING HILL AT 1000 AM 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...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. $$ JBWT
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 Jun 3, 3:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 300 AM CDT SUN JUN 03 2001 LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACING DOWNSTREAM LOW IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION...WITH TRAILING COLD FRONT NEARING THE ERN SEABOARD. UPSTREAM LOW WOUND UP OVER DEN REGION...WITH WARM FRONT STRETCHING SE DOWN TO NEW VICINITY. UPSTREAM SURFACE LOW EXPECTED TO MEANDER AND STRENGTHEN IN THE SERN PLAINS REGION...EVENTUALLY DRAGGING WARM FRONT UP INTO THE CWA 00- 06Z. INSTABILITY REMAINS MARGINAL AT BEST THRU 00Z...ALTHOUGH LOW- LEVEL FORCING BECOMING MORE FAVORABLE IN THE LATE AFTERNOON. CURRENTLY EXPECT A TONGUE OF SEMI-DEEP MOISTURE TO PRECEDE THIS BOUNDARY AND FEEL SMALL POPS FROM BNA-W RUNNING IN ZONES STILL WARRANTED. WARM FRONT SHOULD BE STRETCHING ACROSS THE CWA AROUND 06Z. 06- 12Z...INSTABILITY INDICES ETC. ON FCST SOUNDINGS GOING WAY UP ...RESPONDING TO CWA SHIFTING INTO THE WARM SECTOR AIRMASS. WHILE INDICES BECOMING QUITE FAVORABLE...LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND JET CONTRIBUTIONS SEEMINGLY MUCH MORE FAVORABLE N OF THE AREA IN THE SERN OH VALLEY...NOT TO MENTION GOOD MOISTURE AND THETA-E ADVECTION. CHANCES FOR PRECIP PRETTY GOOD TONIGHT BUT OVERALL...CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE NOT THAT GREAT. LOCALLY SEVERE MORE IN LINE AND WILL EXPECT TO LEAVE CHANCE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN ONGOING FCST. WARM FRONT WILL MOVE FURTHER N ON MONDAY...PUSHING FEATURES FOR WIDESPREAD CONVECTION FURTHER OUT OF THE PICTURE. MODELS EVEN HINTING AT SLIGHT DRY SLOTTING SCENARIO AND WITH NO GOOD FORCING IN THE REGION...BELIEVE POPS RUNNING IN CURRENT PACKAGE TOO HIGH. BEST CHANCE ACROSS THE PLATEAU MONDAY...TO THE W OF THERE... SLIGHT POPS SEEMINGLY MORE IN LINEy. BNA 78/65/87/68 2622 CSV 73/61/80/64 1533 07 .BNA...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-041030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT... THE COLD FRONT THAT PUSHED THROUGH MIDDLE TENNESSEE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...WILL RETURN AS A WARM FRONT AROUND MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DEVELOP IN THE WESTERN HALF OF THE MIDSTATE THIS AFTERNOON...THEN INCREASE IN COVERAGE TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING WILL MAINLY BE WEST OF INTERSTATE 65. THE BULK OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL RESIDE IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS. HOWEVER...THE WINDS ALOFT WILL TRACK THESE STORMS TOWARD MIDDLE TENNESSEE. FURTHERMORE...STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL WINDS AND RISING ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY...WILL ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MIDSTATE. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WILL BE STRONG...AND THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. NO OTHER FORM OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL OCCUR. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTERS MAY BE NEED|ED LATE TONIGHT AND INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING. DICKSON 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 9:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 73 min |
| Jun 3, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford, Williamson | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Warren | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.