Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2002, 5:21 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 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, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Giles County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.
101 WUUS54 KOHX 202221 SVRBNA TNC055-202300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 520 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 519 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF PULASKI TO 12 MILES EAST OF PULASKI...OR FROM 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAWRENCEBURG TO 12 MILES EAST OF PULASKI...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...NEAR PULASKI AROUND 540 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN BE AS DESTRUCTIVE AS A TORNADO. FOR YOUR SAFETY, GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. $$ 21 LAT...LON 3542 8718 3528 8686 3506 8691 3510 8717
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, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 20, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
316 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM COLLINWOOD TN WIND DAMAGE
08/20/02 WAYNE SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
NEAR COLLINWOOD.
DRMLocal storm report, Aug 20, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
316 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM COLLINWOOD TN WIND DAMAGE
08/20/02 WAYNE SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
NEAR COLLINWOOD.
REPORTED BY WAYNE COUNTY
HIGHWAY DEPT.
DRMLocal storm report, Aug 20, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
408 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0355 PM 8 N LEWISBURG/3 N BERLIN TN .75 INCH HAIL
08/20/02 MARSHALL DIME SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT
DRMLocal storm report, Aug 20, 4:55 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
455 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM CORNERSVILLE TN WIND DAMAGE
08/20/02 MARSHALL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES BLOWN DOWN
DRMThe 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, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 42 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 |
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.