Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Nashville, TN

August 18, 2002Bedford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2002, 5:47 PM CDT for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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: Aug 18, 2002, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Bedford County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 18, 6:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Normandy, TN	SKYWARN Spotter reported trees were blown 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2055 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 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.

449 
WUUS54 KOHX 182247
SVRBNA
TNC003-182330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
547 PM CDT SUN AUG 18 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WARTRACE AROUND 600 PM CDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN BE AS DESTRUCTIVE AS A TORNADO. FOR
YOUR SAFETY, GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

$$

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LAT...LON 3555 8659 3542 8660 3539 8642 3558 8626

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 18, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
235 PM CDT SUN AUG 18 2002

CURRENT...MCS OVER MO THIS MORNING HAS TOUCHED OFF SOME CONVECTION
W/ OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THIS AFTERNOON OVER NW COUNTIES WHILE OTHER
WEAK VORT LOBE HAS HELPED FOR OUR SE COUNTIES.  NOT MUCH IN BETWEEN.
TEMPS HAVE RISEN INTO UPPER 80S TO NEAR 90.

FORECAST...AFOREMENTIONED UPPER AIR FEATURES WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH
SE THIS EVE AND TONITE.  PROABLY WILL BE SOME EVE ACTIVITY AND
POSSIBLY ISOLATED ACTIVTY FAR SE LATE TONITE...BUT WILL NOT MENTION
LATTER.  AS FOR MON...ONLY ETA SHOWS AN UPPER LEVEL FEATURE TO
ASSIST...AND THAT AFFECTS MAINLY SE 1/2.  WILL CONTINUE POPS
TOMORROW BUT LOWER A LITTLE.  DONT SEE A FROPA IN NEAR FUTURE...AM
BUYING ETA SOLUTION...SO ONLY ISOLATED STORMS ON TUE AS RIDGE
BUILDS.

AS FOR TEMPS...NEAR PERSISTENCE NEXT FEW DAYS.  DONT SEE BIG REASON
FOR COOL-OFF FOR BNA ON TUE.

BNA BB 72/92/72/92 2322
CSV BB 65/85/65/85 2422

.BNA...NONE.

MAG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb	31 min
Aug 18, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton	51 min
Aug 18, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb	41 min
Aug 18, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	39 min
Aug 18, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	48 min
Aug 18, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2002 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.