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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 208

May 2, 20026 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2002, 12:30 PM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2002, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 117 counties

Lauderdale County, AL, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Logan County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Washington County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, McDowell County, WV

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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.

Warnings issued inside it

58 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 12:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Clay, Laurel, Pulaski	3 hr
May 2, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	36 min
May 2, 12:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Buchanan	3 hr
May 2, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan	37 min
May 2, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary	34 min
May 2, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher	45 min
May 2, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	40 min
May 2, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise	52 min
May 2, 1:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Knott, Letcher	3 hr
May 2, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel	47 min
May 2, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Dickenson	38 min
May 2, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan	34 min
May 2, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell	19 min
May 2, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	39 min
May 2, 1:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Tazewell	3 hr
May 2, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	40 min
May 2, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise, City of Norton	51 min
May 2, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Perry	36 min
May 2, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott	41 min
May 2, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	28 min
May 2, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	46 min
May 2, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	27 min
May 2, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	41 min
May 2, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	47 min
May 2, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise	24 min
May 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Buchanan	3 hr
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, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	29 min
May 2, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	50 min
May 2, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	34 min
May 2, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	42 min
May 2, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Roane	52 min
May 2, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	36 min
May 2, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bledsoe, Sequatchie	49 min
May 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	17 min
May 2, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren	28 min
May 2, 5:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Tazewell	3 hr
May 2, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	47 min
May 2, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Meigs, Rhea	41 min
May 2, 5:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	4 hr
May 2, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Knox	48 min
May 2, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Dickenson	43 min
May 2, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon, Roane	50 min
May 2, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln	44 min
May 2, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell	23 min
May 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	32 min
May 2, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson, Knox	46 min
May 2, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Jefferson, Sevier	43 min
May 2, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe	57 min
May 2, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	45 min
May 2, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham, Swain	39 min
May 2, 6:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Buchanan	6 hr
May 2, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke	50 min
May 2, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sevier	34 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Breathitt and 45 more	4 hr
May 1, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ballard, Union	6 hr
May 1, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Boone, Campbell, Kenton	5 hr
May 2, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Ballard, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 38 more	5 hr
May 2, 8:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd and 63 more	4 hr
May 1, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 12 more	4 hr
May 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin and 12 more	5 hr
May 2, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alamance, Alleghany, Caswell, Durham, Forsyth, Granville and 8 more	6 hr
May 2, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alamance, Alleghany, Caswell, Durham, Forsyth, Granville and 8 more	5 hr
May 2, 11:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath and 45 more	5 hr
May 2, 1:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 16 more	7 hr
May 2, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 50 more	6 hr
May 2, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Marshall and 11 more	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002

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.