Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 7:15 PM CST for Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2002, 7:15 PM CST (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Warren County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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, 7:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, TN | Law enforcement reported trees down. |
| Nov 10, 7:20 PM CST | Hail 1 | Countywide, TN | Law enforcement reported quarter size hail. |
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 |
| Nov 10, 4:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 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
- 1368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 490 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 560 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 110115 TORBNA TNC177-110145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 715 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCMINNVILLE * UNTIL 745 PM CST * AT 713 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER MCMINNVILLE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF MCMINNVILLE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OVER MCMINNVILLE AT 720 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO A BASEMENT...AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY...ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. && LAT...LON 3572 8600 3555 8591 3571 8558 3581 8562 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 29 min |
| Nov 10, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery | 29 min |
| Nov 10, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 27 min |
| Nov 10, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 30 min |
| Nov 10, 6:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 38 min |
| Nov 10, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 43 min |
| Nov 10, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis | 25 min |
| Nov 10, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Maury, Sumner, Williamson | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, White | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 8:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Maury | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 16 min |
| Nov 10, 8:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 25 min |
| Nov 10, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 22 min |
| Nov 10, 9:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Coffee, Cumberland, Van Buren, Warren, White | 3 hr |
| Nov 10, 9:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland, White | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 28 min |
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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.