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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Nashville, TN

May 17, 2003Giles County, Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2003, 11:00 AM CDT for Giles County, Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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 17, 2003, 11:00 AM CDT (16:00 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2003, 11:45 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Giles County, TN, Lincoln County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 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 171600
SVRBNA
TNC055-103-171645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1058 AM CDT SAT MAY 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1145 AM CDT

* AT 1053 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKTON TO 4
  MILES SOUTH OF ELKTON...OR FROM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PULASKI TO 16
  MILES NORTH OF ATHENS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...NEAR
  FAYETTEVILLE FROM 1130 TO 1135 AM 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. TORNADOES MAY FORM FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3518 8711 3493 8690 3495 8633 3520 8654

$$
END/JAO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	50 min
May 17, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	45 min
May 17, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	42 min
May 17, 11:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford	37 min
May 17, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	46 min
May 17, 11:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Moore	42 min
May 17, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	38 min
May 17, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	47 min
May 17, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	39 min
May 17, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Trousdale	40 min
May 17, 12:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon	49 min
May 17, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Putnam, Van Buren, White	59 min
May 17, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	58 min
May 17, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	25 min

Nearby

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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.