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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN

March 16, 2002Lewis County, Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2002, 8:17 PM CST for Lewis County, Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
Mar 16, 2002, 8:17 PM CST (02:17 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 2002, 8:45 PM CST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lewis County, TN, Wayne County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2002-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2002-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 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 170217
SVRBNA
TNC101-181-170245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
802 PM CST SAT MAR 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEWIS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 755 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOHENWALD...MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HOHENWALD AROUND 825 PM CST

.IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG 
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

$$

SH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 10:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb38 min
Mar 17, 12:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry47 min
Mar 17, 1:23 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Marshall3 hr
Mar 17, 4:59 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys and 2 more3 hr
Mar 17, 5:24 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXMacon, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.