Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2002, 11:35 AM CDT for Clay County, Tennessee. It was in force for 25 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
- May 2, 2002, 11:35 AM CDT (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2002, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 2, 11:36 AM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Celina, TN | Hail the size of half dollars were reported. |
| May 2, 11:42 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Celina, TN | Golf ball size hail reported. |
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 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
545 WUUS54 KOHX 021635 SVRBNA TNC027-021700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1135 AM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL NOON CDT * AT 1124 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF CELINA...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOMPKINSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NORTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY BY 1150 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 3657 8568 3643 8554 3673 8502 3692 8522
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 2, 10:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 10:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1004 AM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 CURRENTLY, COLD FRONT HAS EDGED INTO OUR NORTHWEST ZONES, WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS POPPING UP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL OCCURRING BEHIND THE FRONT IN KENTUCKY, AND EXPECT STRONGER ACTIVITY TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON. 12Z SOUNDING FROM OHX SHOWS A MOIST, HIGHLY UNSTABLE, STRONGLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT, BUT WITH LOW CLOUDS RETARDING SURFACE HEATING, AND AN ELEVATED INVERSION BETWEEN 700 AND 750 MB, BELIEVE OUR CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS VERY SMALL. WILL UPDATE THE ZONE FORECAST SHORTLY TO REFLECT THE DECREASED CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER, AND THE EFFECTS OF THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. AT 15Z, THERE WAS A 20 DEGREE DIFFERENCE IN TEMPERATURE BETWEEN BNA AND PAH, SO WE WILL LIKELY SEE RAPIDLY DECREASING TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT. .BNA...NONE. ROSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay | 23 min |
| May 2, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay | 22 min |
| May 2, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 32 min |
| May 2, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 27 min |
| May 2, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 47 min |
| May 2, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 36 min |
| May 2, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 48 min |
| May 2, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 41 min |
| May 2, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 50 min |
| May 2, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren, White | 44 min |
| May 2, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 50 min |
| May 2, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 42 min |
| May 2, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 36 min |
| May 2, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 28 min |
| May 2, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lincoln | 47 min |
| May 2, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln | 44 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.