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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2002, 4:25 PM CDT for Coffee County, Tennessee. It was in force for 50 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
- May 2, 2002, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coffee County, TN
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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 022125 SVRBNA TNC031-022215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 424 PM CDT THU MAY 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 424 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANCHESTER...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NORTHWESTERN COFFEE COUNTY BY 440 PM CDT NORTHERN COFFEE COUNTY BY 500 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, 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, 4:33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.