Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 297
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2002, 4:45 AM CDT for 19 counties in Kentucky; 69 counties in Tennessee; 12 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2002, 4:45 AM CDT (09:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2002, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 100 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur 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, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McMinn County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale 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, Bland County, VA, 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
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 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
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Putnam, Smith | 52 min |
| May 13, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Overton, Pickett | 44 min |
| May 13, 5:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Pickett | 29 min |
| May 13, 5:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Rutherford and 5 more | 3 hr |
| May 13, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 45 min |
| May 13, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 41 min |
| May 13, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Whitley | 49 min |
| May 13, 6:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox | 41 min |
| May 13, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 26 min |
| May 13, 7:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Claiborne, Grainger, Knox, Union | 37 min |
| May 13, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 32 min |
| May 13, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 44 min |
| May 13, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 27 min |
| May 13, 8:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 44 min |
| May 13, 8:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 43 min |
| May 13, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell, Washington | 45 min |
| May 13, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 62 min |
| May 13, 9:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Wythe | 59 min |
| May 13, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fulton | 4 hr |
| May 12, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lake | 4 hr |
| May 13, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Bradley, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Johnson, Unicoi | 5 hr |
| May 13, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Caroline, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Buckingham, Caroline, Charles City and 51 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2002Every 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.