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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Nashville, TN

April 24, 2002Cumberland County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2002, 11:45 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 24, 2002, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2002, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Cumberland County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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
Apr 24, 11:53 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Mayland, TN	Law enforcement reported many trees and power lines down. A shed was destroyed. Nearby, the Dripping Springs Baptist Church lost a steeple. Also, the church building had a porch torn from the building. Eight trees trees fell on 8 homes around the county. A

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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 403 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 458 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 250445
SVRBNA
TNC035-250530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1144 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF CROSSVILLE...OR 16 MILES
  EAST OF COOKEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF CROSSVILLE AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT
  FAIRFIELD GLADE AROUND 1205 AM CDT
  CRAB ORCHARD AROUND 1215 AM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING.

$$

LAT...LON 3621 8520 3604 8530 3580 8480 3600 8475

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	21 min
Apr 24, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	37 min
Apr 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	30 min
Apr 24, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	34 min
Apr 24, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	31 min
Apr 24, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	43 min
Apr 24, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	36 min
Apr 24, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson	45 min
Apr 24, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.