Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2002, 10:52 PM CST for Cannon County, DeKalb County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 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
- Mar 16, 2002, 10:52 PM CST (04:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2002, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cannon County, TN, DeKalb County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 11:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, TN | TDOT reported several trees 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 170452 SVRBNA TNC015-041-170530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1050 PM CST SAT MAR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CANNON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE DE KALB COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1130 PM CST * AT 1050 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF WOODBURY...OR 14 MILES EAST OF MURFREESBORO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SMITHVILLE AROUND 1130 PM CST THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL, WHICH MAY CAUSE INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE. TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS. $$ SH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Wayne | 28 min |
| Mar 17, 12:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 1:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 5:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.