Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 37
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 24, 2001, 11:00 PM CST for 23 counties in Kentucky; 26 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2001, 11:00 PM CST (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2001, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Marion County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Warren County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 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.
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 38 min |
| Feb 24, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Clinton and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 21 more | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.