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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Nashville, TN

July 2, 2002Van Buren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 2:28 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 2, 2002, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2002, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Van Buren County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 1612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 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.

543 
WUUS54 KOHX 021928
SVRBNA
TNC175-022015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
227 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF SPENCER...OR 13 MILES EAST OF
  MCMINNVILLE.  THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES WEST OF SPENCER AROUND 315 PM CDT

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF 
NICKELS. TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS.

$$

LAT...LON 3576 8556 3561 8555 3562 8543 3579 8532

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 Jul 2, 9:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 9:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
945 AM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002

SUNNY SKIES PRESENT OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS MORNING, WITH 9AM
TEMPERATURES RUNNING SOME 3 TO 4 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT ABOVE
YESTERDAYS. THUS, AM LOOKING FOR A HIGH OF 95 OR 96 AT BNA
AIRPORT AND A HIGH OF 88 OR SO AT CSV.

12Z UPPER AIR ANALYSES SHOWED HIGH PRESSURE CENTERS STACKED ON
TOP OF EACH OTHER OVER THE TENNESSEE AND OHIO VALLEYS, AND PUTTING
MIDDLE TN IN THE PRESSURE COOKER. 850 MB TEMP WAS 19 DEGREES...A DEG
HIGHER THAN IT WAS YESTERDAY MORNING.

BELIEVE CURRENT ZFP, ALLOWING FOR AFTERNOON HIGHS IN THE MID
90S OVER THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF OUR FORECAST AREA, IS A GOOD
CALL. ALSO, UPPER 80S FOR THE PLATEAU STILL LOOKS GOOD. THUS,
SEE NO REASON FOR AN UPDATE AT THIS TIME.

.BNA...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
1234 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1015 PM    LAWRENCEBURG              TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/01/02   LAWRENCE                       SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED A
                                          FRONT PORCH ON A HOUSE WAS
                                          DESTOYED. CHAIR PICKED UP
                                          AND TOSSED THROUGH A GLASS
                                          WINDOW.

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 12:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
1245 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1202 PM    MONTEAGLE                 TN   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/02/02   GRUNDY                         REPORTED BY MONTEAGLE PD

Local storm report, Jul 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
200 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    CLARKSVILLE               TN   58 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/02/02   MONTGOMERY                     EMA REPORTED TREE LIMBS
                                          WERE BLOWN DOWN NEAR AUSTIN
                                          PEAY UNIV.

0206 PM    NOLENSVILLE               TN   .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02   WILLIAMSON                     CHANNEL 2 REPORTED DIME
                                          SIZE HAIL AT NOLENSVILLE.

0225 PM    SOUTHEAST SECTION         TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/02/02   DAVIDSON                       CHANNEL 2 REPORTED
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON
                                          NOLENSVILLE RD.

0225 PM    NORTHEAST SECTION         TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/02/02   WILLIAMSON                     CHANNEL 2 REPORTED
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON
                                          NOLENSVILLE RD. TREES WERE
                                          ONE FOOT IN DIAMETER.

JAO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	32 min
Jul 1, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	35 min
Jul 2, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	46 min
Jul 2, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	43 min
Jul 2, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	41 min
Jul 2, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	39 min
Jul 2, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	47 min
Jul 2, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	47 min
Jul 2, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	23 min
Jul 2, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	31 min
Jul 2, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	42 min
Jul 2, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	47 min
Jul 2, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	42 min
Jul 2, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	43 min
Jul 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	41 min
Jul 2, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	42 min
Jul 2, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	35 min
Jul 2, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	48 min
Jul 2, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	49 min
Jul 2, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	49 min
Jul 2, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay	43 min

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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.