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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Nashville, TN

June 15, 2003Lawrence County, Lewis County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2003, 5:52 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Lewis County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 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
Jun 15, 2003, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2003-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 320 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2003-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 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 152252
SVRBNA
TNC099-101-152330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
551 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  LEWIS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 541 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOHENWALD...MOVING EAST AT
  15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  6 MILES SOUTH OF HOHENWALD AROUND 600 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 3553 8772 3535 8769 3540 8722 3562 8728

$$

JLM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWilliamson2 hr
Jun 15, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry30 min
Jun 15, 5:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXMarshall, Maury2 hr

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.