Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 7:16 AM CDT for Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 min. 2 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
- Apr 28, 2002, 7:16 AM CDT (12:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 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 12:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:34 AM CDT | Tornado F3 | Murfreesboro, TN | 31 people were injured. Most of them were treated and released from the hospital. 6 people had to be hospitalized, and one person was seriously injured and had to be Life-Flighted to Vanderbilt hospital. 7 mobile homes were destroyed, and one mobile home had m |
| Apr 28, 7:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Murfreesboro, TN | Spotter reported damage on U.S Hwy 231 just south of Murfreesboro. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 5:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 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
- 998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
805 WFUS54 KOHX 281216 TORBNA TNC149-281245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 715 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 745 AM CDT * AT 709 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MURFREESBORO...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CHRISTIANA AT 725 AM CDT 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. $$ ROSE LAT...LON 3585 8665 3567 8665 3565 8616 3587 8615
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 4:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 5:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 5:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 6:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Putnam | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 7:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, Rutherford | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Smith | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Warren | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Moore | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 23 min |
| Apr 28, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 20 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.