Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 2:07 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports 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 28, 2002, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rutherford County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 28, 2:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | La Vergne, TN | Trained spotter reported hail from the size of peas to golf balls from Lavergne to Smyrna. |
| Apr 28, 2:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cainsville, TN | Spotter reported penny size hail. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
114 WUUS54 KOHX 281907 SVRBNA TNC149-189-281945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 206 PM CDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 202 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RURAL HILL...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF MOUNT JULIET...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 9 MILES NORTH OF WALTERHILL AROUND 220 PM CDT WATERTOWN AROUND 240 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. 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. $$ GIRODO LAT...LON 3621 8659 3603 8662 3595 8641 3617 8585
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 4:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 5:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 5:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 6:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Putnam | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 7:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 7:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Smith | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Warren | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Moore | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 20 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.