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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN

February 22, 2003Coffee County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 10:51 AM CST for Coffee County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 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: Feb 22, 2003, 10:51 AM CST (16:51 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2003, 11:30 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coffee County, TN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 22, 10:35 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 221651
SVRBNA
TNC031-221730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1051 AM CST SAT FEB 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1130 AM CST

* AT 1044 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF MANCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3545 8623 3536 8605 3549 8591 3560 8604

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 2:34 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Franklin	116 min
Feb 22, 10:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	57 min
Feb 22, 10:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Wilson	46 min
Feb 22, 11:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren, White	40 min
Feb 22, 12:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon	23 min
Feb 22, 2:38 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2003 Every 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.