Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jun 25, 2002, 6:59 AM CDT (11:59 UTC)

Expired

Jun 25, 2002, 7:45 AM CDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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 251159
SVRBNA
TNC021-037-251245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
657 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  DAVIDSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 745 AM CDT

* AT 653 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF ASHLAND CITY TO
  BERRY HILL...OR FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF FAIRVIEW TO 4 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...NEAR
  ASHLAND CITY AROUND 715 AM CDT
  NASHVILLE THROUGH 745 AM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE 
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY 
RAINFALL OVER ONE HALF INCH.

$$

13

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 2:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
230 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

SURFACE BERMUDA HIGH REMAINS OVER THE REGION...WITH WEAK LOW
PRESSURE IN THE NORTHERN GULF. ALOFT...UPPER LOWS REMAIN NEAR
TEXARKANA. DEEP MOISTURE REMAINS ACROSS MOST OF THE SOUTHEAST
US. WEAK LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE FROM NORTH AL UP INTO WESTERN
KY HELPING TO SET OFF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS
MORNING.

CUTOFF UPPER LOWS PROGGED TO SLOWLY FILL...EVENTUALLY BECOMING
LINKED AS A WEAK TROF AXIS WITH APPROACHING SHORT WAVE NEAR THE
END OF THE PERIOD. PROCESS ALSO EXPECTED TO BEAT DOWN SOUTHEAST
US SURFACE HIGH SOME...DROPPING A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY DOWN
INTO THE OH VALLEY BY THURSDAY MORNING.

TRANSLATION FOR THE CWA IN THE SHORT-TERM NOT MUCH DIFFERENT
OVERALL. BELIEVE SCATTERED CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THE PERIOD...BEING MOST WIDESPREAD DURING AFTERNOON HEATING.
PLAN TO RUN CHANCE/SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THROUGH THURSDAY.

BNA 89/70/89/70 4242
CSV 83/66/85/66 5342

07
.BNA...NONE.

In the hours before

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-261030-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
530 AM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MIDDLE
TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD AGAIN BE MOST
NUMEROUS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. ALTHOUGH
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN UNFAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER
...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO COULD APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS
LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS IS HOWEVER
NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.