Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2002, 6:51 PM CDT for Franklin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 24 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 7, 2002, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Estill Spgs, TN | Sheriff reported trees 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 072351 CCA SVRBNA TNC051-080015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 641 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 639 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ESTILL SPRINGS...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF WINCHESTER. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ESTILL SPRINGS AROUND 715 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. $$ GIRODO LAT...LON 3527 8625 3503 8620 3525 8589 3534 8612
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 7, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 230 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 2002 UPPER LEVEL ANTICYCLONE RETROGRADES WESTWARD THIS WEEK AS MOISTURE GRADUALLY DEEPENS ACROSS THE REGION BEGINNING ON MONDAY. A WEAK INVERTED TROF WILL WORK IT WAY ACROSS THE MID STATE ON MONDAY AND THIS WILL BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR TSTMS. MOISTURE DEEP ENOUGH TUESDAY TO KEEP A CHANCE IN THE FORECAST BUT SHOULD SEE A LITTLE BETTER CHANCE BY WEDNESDAY AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY DROPS SOUTH FROM OHIO RIVER VALLEY. BIG QUESTION IS TO HOW FAR SOUTH FRONT WILL GET LATER THIS WEEK? MRF HANGS IT UP SOUTHERN MIDDLE/NORTHERN AL. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: NASHVILLE 70 92 71 92 72 0213 CROSSVILLE 64 86 66 87 67 0213 .BNA...NONE. BOYD 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 33 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.