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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Nashville, TN

July 2, 2002Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 3:57 PM CDT for Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2002, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2002, 4:40 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 2, 4:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Gladeville, TN	EMA reported trees and power lines were down.
Jul 2, 4:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Lebanon, TN	EMA reported walnut size hail at Cedars of Lebanon State Park.

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 27 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.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 022057
SVRBNA
TNC189-022140-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 440 PM CDT

* AT 346 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATERTOWN...OR 15 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF MURFREESBORO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  IN CENTRAL WILSON COUNTY AROUND LEBANON BY 430 PM CDT

$$
END/JAO
LAT...LON 3591 8613 3609 8611 3631 8637 3610 8651

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, 3:15 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:15 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
315 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS
AFTERNOON, AND RADAR INDICATED THAT A FEW BECAME SEVERE. OUTSIDE OF
THUNDERSTORM AREAS, WEATHER REMAINED HOT AND HUMID, WITH
TEMPERATURES MAINLY IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 90S.

LITTLE CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT
SEVERAL DAYS AND, ACTUALLY, FOR THE NEXT WEEK AS WELL. EXTENDED
MODELS TRY AND ALTER OUR WEATHER PATTERN EARLY NEXT WEEK, WITH A
TROF DIGGING OVER THE EASTERN U.S. AND A COLD FRONT DROPPING THROUGH
TENNESSEE. HOWEVER, WITH A MONSTER RIDGE STILL PARKED OVER OUR
AREA THROUGH LATE THIS WEEK, AM HESITANT TO GO FOR A BIG PATTERN
CHANGE LATE IN THE PERIOD. THUS, WILL KEEP PERSISTENCE RUNNING
THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY.

BNA BB 072/094 072/094 072 19332
CSV BB 066/087 066/088 066 19332

.BNA...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 12:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 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, 3 hours 12 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, 1 hour 57 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

Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:35 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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

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

0331 PM    WOODBURY                  TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   CANNON                         SPOTTER REPORTED 3 INCH
                                          DIAMETER TREE WAS BLOWN
                                          DOWN.

JAO

Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:41 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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

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

0331 PM    WOODBURY                  TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   CANNON                         SPOTTER REPORTED NUMEROUS
                                          TREES WERE DOWN. THERE WAS
                                          SOME ROOF DAMAGE TO HOMES
                                          AND DAMAGE TO A CHURCH JUST
                                          WEST OF WOODBURY.

JAO

Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:41 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT. . . .CORRECTED FOR TIME OF REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
341 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002

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

0335 PM    WOODBURY                  TN   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   CANNON                         SPOTTER REPORTED NUMEROUS
                                          TREES WERE DOWN. THERE WAS
                                          SOME ROOF DAMAGE TO HOMES
                                          AND DAMAGE TO A CHURCH JUST
                                          WEST OF WOODBURY.

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, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren	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, 3:59 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.