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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 1:37 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 23 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
- Aug 16, 2002, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Davidson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
674 WUUS54 KOHX 161837 SVRBNA TNC037-161900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 136 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DAVIDSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 135 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BELLE MEADE...OR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKEWOOD AROUND 205 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. $$ 07
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 Aug 16, 10:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 10:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1015 AM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002 NO CHANGES TO CURRENT FORECAST. RADAR SHOWS MOST SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER FROM NASHVILLE TO CARTHAGE MOVING NORTHEAST. MOST PERSISTENT RAIN CONTINUED FROM WEST TN INTO OUR FAR WESTERN COUNTIES. THIS SHOULD BE THE PATTERN MOST OF TODAY...GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF SHOWERS IN OUR WESTERN COUNTIES...BUT SHOWERS AND STORMS ALSO LIKELY REST OF FORECAST AREA. MORNING BNA SOUNDING HAD PRECIPITABLE WATER OF 1.87 INCH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE MAIN CONCERN WITH CONVECTION TODAY. EXTENSIVE CLOUDINESS WILL LIMIT DESTABILIZATION. PROBABILITIES FOR RAIN DECREASE SOMEWHAT AFTER TODAY AS UPPER DISTURBANCE WEAKENS. HOWEVER...STILL A GOOD CHANCE FOR RAIN AT TIMES THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS DEEP MOISTURE REMAINS OVER THE REGION. NEXT BEST CHANCE LATE SUNDAY AS FRONT APPROACHES. .BNA...NONE. SH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 41 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.