Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jun 4, 2002, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)

Expired

Jun 4, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT

In force

28 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Van Buren County, TN, White County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 042332
SVRBNA
TNC175-185-050000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
632 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  VAN BUREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  WHITE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF SPENCER...OR 14 MILES EAST OF
  MCMINNVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DOYLE AROUND 655 PM CDT
  SPARTA AROUND 700 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...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING.

$$

LAT...LON 3571 8566 3563 8547 3596 8521 3608 8548

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
238 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

TSTM ACTIVITY A LITTLE MORE ACTIVE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF
THE REGION. STORMS FIRING NEAR THE SPINE OF THE APPALACHIANS ALONG
THE NC/TN BORDER AS WELL AS ALONG THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE CWA AND
NEAR DICKSON. FOR THIS EVENING WILL INCLUDE A 20 POP ACROSS THE AREA
BUT MAY NEED TO ADJUST UPWARD DEPENDING ON FUTURE RADAR TRENDS.
OTHERWISE...WILL CONTINUE TO UNDERCUT THE MOS TEMPERATURE VALUES FOR
TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

PATTERN STILL LOOKS AS THOUGH IT WILL BECOME MORE ACTIVE OVER THE
NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS. MOISTURE RETURN CONTINUES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AS A COLD FRONT MAKES ITS WAY TOWARD THE AREA EARLY THURSDAY
MORNING.

BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR BEGINNING LATE WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON AND INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THOUGH THE FROPA WILL NOT LIKELY
OCCUR UNTIL SOMETIME AROUND 12Z THU...PRE FRONTAL TROUGH DEVELOPMENT
IS LIKELY GIVEN THE PLACEMENT OF THE SFC PRESSURE MINIMA TO THE
SOUTHEAST OF THE ACTUAL FRONT.

WILL INCLUDE A BRIEF REPRIEVE FROM POPS BY THURSDAY NIGHT.
60 HOUR MODEL SOLUTIONS DIVERGE A BIT AS THE ETA APPEARS TO BE TOO
DEEP WITH AN UPPER TROUGH ACROSS THE EASTERN U.S. EVEN IF THE ETA
IS CORRECT...THE TROUGH APPEARS TO BE PULLING OUT WHICH WOULD
SUPPORT THE NORTHWARD MIGRATION OF THE WARM FRONT.

GIVEN THE AVN SOLUTION BEYOND 60 HOURS...THE FRONT WILL WORK BACK TO
THE NORTH AS A WARM FRONT WITH SOME OVERRUNNING PRECIP PRECLUDING
THIS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CLOSED LOW OVER THE NORTHERN GULF IS
STILL INDICATED WITH IMPULSES OF UPPER LEVEL ENERGY OUT AHEAD OF IT.
WILL CONTINUE THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS FOR FRIDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY.

BNA BW 071/088 068/078 063 2573
CSV BW 068/084 066/075 060 2566

.BNA...NONE.

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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.