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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Nashville, TN

May 5, 2003Lewis County, Perry County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2003, 8:44 AM CDT for Lewis County, Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 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 5, 2003, 8:44 AM CDT (13:44 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2003, 9:35 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lewis County, TN, Perry County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 5, 4:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 575 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 604 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 12.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

113 
WUUS54 KOHX 051344
SVRBNA
TNC101-135-051435-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
842 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEWIS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  PERRY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 935 AM CDT

* AT 834 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES WEST OF LINDEN...OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LINDEN AROUND 850 AM CDT
  HOHENWALD AROUND 910 AM CDT

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. IF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...GO TO A SAFE PLACE.
ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME.

EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS, AND AVOID USING
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES OR TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.

&&

LAT...LON 3566 8816 3548 8814 3545 8725 3567 8733

$$

END/JAO

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 5, 2:15 AM CDT, 6 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 2:15 AM CDT, 6 hours 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
215 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWING PRETTY WELL DEFINED WARM FRONT JUST
NORTH OF THE TN/KY BORDER...WITH ANOTHER WEAKER BOUNDARY ACROSS WEST
TN. STRONG BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS THE MID-
STATE WITH THE LEADING JUST EAST OF BNA. BAND OVERALL HAS WEAKENED
SOME OVER LAST HOUR OR SO BUT A FEW CELL REMAIN SEVERE. TOR WATCH
CONTINUES UNTIL 5 AM.

WARM FRONT PROGGED TO CLIMB FURTHER NORTH TODAY...ALTHOUGH MODELS
LEAVE BAND OF DEEP MOISTURE JUST TO OUR SOUTH. LL WIND FIELD REMAINS
QUITE STRONG BUT ML JET MIGRATES EAST OF THE REGION. CURRENT BAND OF
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE CWA THIS
MORNING THEN BUILD BACK UP AGAIN LATER TODAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE
SOUTH. MOST OF THE AREA STILL OUTLOOKED FOR MODERATE RISK TODAY/
TONIGHT. PLAN SCATTERED POPS NORTH...LIKELY POPS SOUTH AND PLATEAU.
WILL KEEP MENTION OF SEVERE.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AS ANOTHER POOL OF
DEEP MOISTURE LIFTS NORTH AND ANOTHER BRANCH OF THE ML JET SWINGS
ACROSS. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS TONIGHT.

CWA SEEMINGLY GETTING BRIEF REPRIEVE FOR WIDESPREAD CONVECTION
TUESDAY AS DRY-SLOT MOVES OVER THE AREA. CONVECTION LOOKING TO BE
SCATTERED AT BEST...THUS WILL LOWER POPS SLIGHTLY ACROSS THE BOARD.
MODELS REALLY SEPARATE TUESDAY NIGHT. ZONES CURRENTLY RUNNING
WITH CHANCE CATEGORY POPS...WILL LEAVE FOR NOW.

BNA 80/67/81/63 5634
CSV 74 62/76 60 7634

07
.BNA...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 5:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-061030-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
530 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE MID-STATE TODAY
AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED TODAY AND
THAN BECOME A LITTLE MORE NUMEROUS AGAIN TONIGHT. THE AREA REMAINS
UNDER A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF
LARGE HAIL AND MORE ISOLATED TORNADOES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY
A SERIES OF DISTURBANCE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE
OF SEVERE WEATHER EACH OF THESE DAYS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TODAY
AND TONIGHT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.

07

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 3:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
301 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0300 AM    SMITHVILLE                TN   .75 INCH HAIL
05/05/03   DEKALB                         TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          3/4 INCH HAIL IN SMITHVILLE

JLM

Local storm report, May 5, 3:23 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
323 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0200 AM    SMYRNA                    TN   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/03   RUTHERFORD                     TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED

0235 AM    18S LEBANON               TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/05/03   WILSON                         *** 7 INJ ***
                                          TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          TRAILER
                                          OVERTURNED...VEHICLE
                                          FLIPPED OVER...7 INJURIES

0318 AM    6W SPARTA                 TN   .75 INCH HAIL
05/05/03   WHITE                          TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          3/4 INCH HAIL IN CASSVILLE
                                          JUST W OF SPARTA

0325 AM    MURFREESBORO              TN   FLOOD
05/05/03   RUTHERFORD                     TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          ONE FOOT OF WATER IN
                                          INTERSECTION OF I24 AND HWY
                                          96 IN MURFREESBORO

0144 AM    8E NASHVILLE              TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/05/03   DAVIDSON                       TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          ONE HOME DESTROYED...ONE
                                          HOME MAJOR DAMAGE...ONE
                                          HOME MINOR DAMAGE...CARS
                                          OVERTURNED NEAR SKYLINE
                                          MEDICAL CENTER

0330 AM    3NE MURFREESBORO          TN   FLOOD
05/05/03   RUTHERFORD                     TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          HOMES FLOODED ON HALLS HILL
                                          PIKE JUST NE OF
                                          MURFREESBORO

JLM

Local storm report, May 5, 4:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
436 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0415 AM    3SE NASHVILLE             TN   FLOOD
05/05/03   DAVIDSON                       TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          FLOODING AT EDMONDSON PIKE
                                          AND BLACKMAN ST...6 FEET OF
                                          WATER OVER ROAD...HOMES
                                          FLOODED

0438 AM    4W WINCHESTER             TN   .75 INCH HAIL
05/05/03   FRANKLIN                       TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          PENNY SIZE HAIL IN
                                          BROADVIEW

JLM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	42 min
May 4, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	31 min
May 4, 11:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	60 min
May 4, 11:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	16 min
May 4, 11:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	43 min
May 4, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	36 min
May 5, 12:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	63 min
May 5, 12:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry	44 min
May 5, 12:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	25 min
May 5, 12:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry	38 min
May 5, 12:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Perry	39 min
May 5, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston	46 min
May 5, 12:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	56 min
May 5, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	20 min
May 5, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	41 min
May 5, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	34 min
May 5, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	20 min
May 5, 1:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	24 min
May 5, 1:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	35 min
May 5, 1:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	28 min
May 5, 1:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	31 min
May 5, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	28 min
May 5, 1:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	46 min
May 5, 2:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	28 min
May 5, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman	35 min
May 5, 2:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford	40 min
May 5, 2:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	24 min
May 5, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	44 min
May 5, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman	48 min
May 5, 2:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb	29 min
May 5, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	42 min
May 5, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	31 min
May 5, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford	45 min
May 5, 3:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	3 hr
May 5, 3:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Maury	44 min
May 5, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	34 min
May 5, 3:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	48 min
May 5, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Wilson	32 min
May 5, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Putnam	42 min
May 5, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	29 min
May 5, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee	50 min
May 5, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	48 min
May 5, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	41 min
May 5, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, Warren	52 min
May 5, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	33 min
May 5, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	47 min
May 5, 4:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland, White	3 hr
May 5, 5:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	19 min
May 5, 5:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	3 hr
May 5, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	50 min
May 5, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	46 min
May 5, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	48 min
May 5, 6:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	25 min
May 5, 7:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	30 min
May 5, 7:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	38 min
May 5, 7:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	29 min
May 5, 7:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	51 min
May 5, 7:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	28 min
May 5, 7:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	27 min
May 5, 7:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	38 min
May 5, 8:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	14 min
May 5, 8:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin, Grundy	42 min
May 5, 9:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Perry	43 min
May 5, 9:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	46 min
May 5, 10:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	42 min
May 5, 10:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	40 min
May 5, 10:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	47 min
May 5, 11:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lincoln, Marshall, Moore	44 min
May 5, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	44 min
May 5, 11:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	41 min
May 5, 12:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford	81 min
May 5, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	51 min
May 5, 12:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Grundy	59 min
May 5, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Wilson	26 min
May 5, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	54 min
May 5, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton	57 min
May 5, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	38 min
May 5, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson	46 min
May 5, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	52 min
May 5, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.