Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Nashville, TN

June 3, 20014 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2001, 10:14 AM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 61 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: Jun 3, 2001, 10:14 AM CDT (15:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2001, 11:15 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bedford County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 50 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 031515
SVRBNA

TNC003-117-149-187-031615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1014 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BEDFORD 
  NORTHERN MARSHALL 
  SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD 
  EASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT

* AT 1014 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST AT 35 TO
  40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  JUST NORTH OF EAGLEVILLE AT 1020 AM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPA`RE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE
...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
$$
JBW

LAT...LON 3588 8693 3569 8693 3557 8677 3561 8652
          3566 8622 3582 8635 3588 8676

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, 9:52 AM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 9:52 AM CDT, 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
952 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001

WELL...LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS WARM FRONT ALONG THE WESTERN
OK/KS BORDER TO OKC-LIT-CBM TO NORTH OF BHM. ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE BEEN FORMING ALL NIGHT LONG AND CONTINUE TO AS H8 JET OF 25 TO
30 KTS FEEDS JUICY THETA E AIR NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY.  BNA SOUNDING
WAS VERY STABLE.  HOWEVER...LIT SOUNDING HAS SWEAT NEAR 400...K
INDEX OF 30 AND CAPE OF NEARLY 2000 J/KG. LOTS OF 0-3 SRM HELICITY
TOO. AS WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTHWARD...AND AFTERNOON HEATING
COMMENCES...SHOWERS AND TSRA WILL BECOME LIKELY.  PLAN TO UPDATE THE
ZONES TO RAISE POPS FOR TODAY AND POSSIBLY TONIGHT.

LOOKS LIKE HAIL IS THE PRIMARY THREAT FOR THE MOMENT...HOWEVER AS
THE FRONT MOVES NORTHWARD CELLS MAY DENOTE MORE OF BOWING
CHARACTERISTICS...AND THUS WIND DAMAGE MAY BECOME A THREAT.  SPC
DAY 1 IS ON TARGET WITH A LARGE SLIGHT AREA.

PLAN TO BUMP UP THE POPS...DRASTICALLY...AS CELLS ARE NOW POPPING UP
JUST SOUTH OF THE NASHVILLE AREA. SCOTT DICKSONS EXCELLENT AWIPS
MESOSCALE PROCEDURES SHOWING LOTS OF THETA E ADVECTION AND
MOISTURE TRANSPORT INTO WRN 1/2 OF CWA. SCHROEDER RULE IN EFFECT
TOO...SO LIKELY POPS ARE WARRANTED.

.BNA...NONE.

JDG

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 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, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	53 min
Jun 3, 9:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	73 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, 2001 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.