Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2002, 5:12 PM CDT for Benton County, Houston County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
- Sep 6, 2002, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2002, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, TN, Houston County, TN, Stewart County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 5:16 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Tennessee Ridge, TN | Law enforcement reported trees were down on State Route 147 near the town of Stewart. |
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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 6, 2:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 215 PM CDT FRI SEP 6 2002 SATELLITE SHOWING RETURN FLOW AROUND SURFACE RIDGE IN FORM OF SCATTERED CUMULUS CLOUDS AND WITH DEWPOINTS CLIMBING BACK INTO THE UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S ISOLATED SHOWERS HAVE DEVELOPED IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG NEGATIVE 5 LIFTED INDEX AXIS. MODELS TAKE GULF TROPICAL SYSTEM WESTWARD AND INTO SOUTH TEXAS NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. WILL MENTION ISOLATED SHOWERS/TSTMS THIS EVENING AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: NASHVILLE 67 88 68 88 66 1110 CROSSVILLE 61 84 61 83 60 1110 .BNA...NONE. BOYD 01
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 6, 4:49 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
449 PM CDT FRI SEP 6 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0340 PM 1NE HARTSVILLE TN WIND DAMAGE
09/06/02 TROUSDALE LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED
TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES
DOWN ON HALLTOWN RD
JLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.