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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2002, 9:39 PM CST for Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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 29, 2002, 9:39 PM CST (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 10:05 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
850 WUUS54 KOHX 300339 SVRBNA TNC103-127-300405- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 938 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE MOORE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1005 PM CST * AT 937 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. GOLF-BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN FAYETTEVILLE. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CENTRAL MOORE COUNTY BY 950 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR MUCH OF THE MIDSTATE. $$ GIRODO LAT...LON 3515 8665 3499 8653 3524 8626 3529 8637
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 23 min |
| Mar 29, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 26 min |
| Mar 29, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 27 min |
| Mar 29, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 18 min |
| Mar 29, 7:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 7:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 32 min |
| Mar 29, 7:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 7:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 8:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 23 min |
| Mar 29, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 20 min |
| Mar 29, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 27 min |
| Mar 29, 9:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.