Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 7:17 PM CST for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 29, 2002, 7:17 PM CST (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 300117 TORBNA TNC165-300145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 717 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PORTLAND * UNTIL 745 PM CST * AT 716 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR PORTLAND...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WESTMORELAND AROUND 735 PM CST IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO, DAMAGING HAIL AND STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW $$ ROSE LAT...LON 3673 8659 3655 8661 3652 8622 3673 8619
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 23 min |
| Mar 29, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 26 min |
| Mar 29, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 27 min |
| Mar 29, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 18 min |
| Mar 29, 7:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 32 min |
| Mar 29, 7:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 7:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 8:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 23 min |
| Mar 29, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 20 min |
| Mar 29, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 27 min |
| Mar 29, 9:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 9:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Moore | 26 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.