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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN

March 17, 2002Perry County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2002, 12:13 AM CST for Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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
Mar 17, 2002, 12:13 AM CST (06:13 UTC)
Expired
Mar 17, 2002, 1:00 AM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2002-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2002-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 170613
SVRBNA
TNC135-170700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1212 AM CST SUN MAR 17 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 AM CST

* AT 1208 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF LOBELVILLE...OR 23 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HOHENWALD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

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 3573 8805 3561 8789 3574 8778 3582 8789

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 8:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Wayne28 min
Mar 16, 10:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb38 min
Mar 17, 1:23 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Marshall3 hr
Mar 17, 4:59 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys and 2 more3 hr
Mar 17, 5:24 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXMacon, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.