Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2002, 3:03 PM CDT for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 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 20, 2002, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 3175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
571 WUUS54 KOHX 202003 SVRBNA TNC181-202045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 300 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 254 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS WAYNE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... ACROSS WAYNE COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM CDT THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. $$ 13 LAT...LON 3504 8769 3541 8762 3541 8798 3500 8801
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 20, 2:32 PM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 2:32 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 230 PM CDT TUE AUG 2002 CURRENT...REMNANTS OF MCS DEPOSITED BOUNDARY WHICH HAS TOUCHED OFF SOME CONVECTION OVER FAR S. THIS WILL DIE OFF THIS EVE BUT WILL MENTION FOR EARLY EVE ZONES. TEMPS IN 85 TO 90 RANGE FOR MOST PART. ASSOCIATED VORT MAX FROM AFOREMENTIONED MCS WILL HOVER NEAR PAH THRU WED MORNING AND THEN MOVE NE. DONT EXPECT CWA TO BE AFFECTED. DRY DAY TOMORROW THEN ISOLATED STUFF THU AS DEEPER MOISTURE COMES INTO PLAY ACCOMPANIED BY WARMER TEMPS AS H5 RIDGE BUILDS. AS FOR TEMPS... WILL BUY THE WARMER ETA MAXS. BNA BB 72/95/73/95 -1-2 CSV BB 67/89/67/89 -1-2 .BNA...NONE. MAG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 30 min |
| Aug 20, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.