Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2002, 3:57 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 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
- May 2, 2002, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rutherford County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Midland, TN | Spotters reported trees were blown down. |
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 2, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 36 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.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 022057 SVRBNA TNC149-022145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 356 PM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 355 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO...OR 16 MILES EAST OF COLUMBIA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... IN SOUTHWESTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY BY 410 PM CDT IN SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY BY 420 PM 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay | 25 min |
| 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, 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.