Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 4:16 PM CST for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 59 min. 6 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 4:16 PM CST (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:28 PM CST | Hail 1 | Stiversville, TN | Spotter reported quarter size hail along Highway 31. |
| Nov 10, 4:29 PM CST | Hail 1 | Lynnville, TN | Spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| Nov 10, 4:37 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lewisburg, TN | Spotter reported dime size hail. |
| Nov 10, 4:42 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Lewisburg, TN | Spotter reported golfball size hail. |
| Nov 10, 4:54 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Lewisburg, TN | Spotter reported golfball size hail. A Lewisburg body shop performed 50 car estimates for hail damage by 10 AM. The Ridgetop Apartments on Mooresville Highway sustained damage from golf ball size hail. The hail damaged cars, broke lamps and the apartment buil |
| Nov 10, 5:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Chapel Hill, TN | Amateur radio operator reported damage to a car, tree and a barn. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 410 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 12:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston, Montgomery | 63 min |
| Nov 10, 12:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys, Perry | 58 min |
| Nov 10, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 1:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 57 min |
| Nov 10, 2:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 3:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 59 min |
| Nov 10, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Trousdale | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 3:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Putnam | 37 min |
| Nov 10, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Overton | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 41 min |
| Nov 10, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 52 min |
| Nov 10, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 5:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 5:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 5:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Warren | 43 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.