Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2002, 3:21 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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 3, 2002, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:54 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Clarksville, TN | 911 center reported power lines were down. |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
391 WUUS54 KOHX 032021 SVRBNA TNC125-032100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 318 PM CDT WED JUL 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF GUTHRIE TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLARKSVILLE MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. * CLARKSVILLE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. END/JAO $$ LAT...LON 3668 8769 3636 8759 3636 8710 3666 8710
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 34 min |
| Jul 3, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 38 min |
| Jul 3, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 28 min |
| Jul 3, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 27 min |
| Jul 3, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 38 min |
| Jul 3, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 42 min |
| Jul 3, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Perry | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.