Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2003, 3:47 PM CDT for Rutherford County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2003, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Rutherford County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
778 WUUS54 KOHX 012047 SVRBNA TNC149-187-012130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 346 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 337 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF FRANKLIN... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LA VERGNE AROUND 410 PM CDT SMYRNA AROUND 415 PM CDT WALTERHILL AROUND 430 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. && LAT...LON 3609 8695 3591 8693 3565 8624 3598 8615 $$ END/ORCHANIAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 37 min |
| May 1, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 46 min |
| May 1, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys | 44 min |
| May 1, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 41 min |
| May 1, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 25 min |
| May 1, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 46 min |
| May 1, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 47 min |
| May 1, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 29 min |
| May 1, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis | 38 min |
| May 1, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 49 min |
| May 1, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 45 min |
| May 1, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 40 min |
| May 1, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 48 min |
| May 1, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 54 min |
| May 1, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 50 min |
| May 1, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 48 min |
| May 1, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale | 50 min |
| May 1, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 45 min |
| May 1, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Smith | 51 min |
| May 1, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.