Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2002, 12:57 AM CDT for Coffee County, Grundy County, Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 min. 4 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
- May 1, 2002, 12:57 AM CDT (05:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coffee County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Warren County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 1:10 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Manchester, TN | Law enforcement reported several trees down across the county. |
| May 1, 1:10 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Altamont, TN | Dime size hail reported by law enforcement. |
| May 1, 1:34 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Mc Minnville, TN | Spotter estimated wind gusts to be 60-80 mph. |
| May 1, 1:34 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Manchester, TN | Spotter estimated winds to be 60-80 mph. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 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 010557 SVRBNA TNC031-061-177-010630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1255 AM CDT WED MAY 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE GRUNDY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1254 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORRISON...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF MANCHESTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MORRISON AROUND 105 AM CDT VIOLA AROUND 110 AM CDT THE MAIN THREAT IS DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL . SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. $$ JLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Perry, Wayne | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 10:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 31 min |
| Apr 30, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys, Stewart | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 11:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 22 min |
| Apr 30, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 11:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 47 min |
| May 1, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 26 min |
| May 1, 12:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury | 22 min |
| May 1, 12:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 35 min |
| May 1, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Wilson | 58 min |
| May 1, 1:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Moore | 28 min |
| May 1, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 35 min |
| May 1, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Putnam, Van Buren, White | 40 min |
| May 1, 1:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 30 min |
| May 1, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Warren | 41 min |
| May 1, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 27 min |
| May 1, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 47 min |
| May 1, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith, Sumner, Wilson | 30 min |
| May 1, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Putnam, Smith, Van Buren, Warren and 2 more | 39 min |
| May 1, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton | 36 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.