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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS Nashville, TN

July 13, 20034 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 6:02 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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: Jul 13, 2003, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bedford County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 1439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 132302 CCA
SVRBNA
TNC003-117-149-187-132330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED TO ADD NORTHERN BEDFORD
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
557 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SOUTHEAST WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF EAGLEVILLE...OR 15 MILES SOUTH
  OF FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EAGLEVILLE AROUND 605 PM CDT
  CHAPEL HILL AROUND 610 PM CDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN BE AS DESTRUCTIVE AS A TORNADO. FOR
YOUR SAFETY, GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3584 8681 3566 8687 3557 8659 3576 8644
$$
ROSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	34 min
Jul 12, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	31 min
Jul 12, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall, Maury	30 min
Jul 12, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Williamson	46 min
Jul 12, 10:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Maury	3 hr
Jul 12, 10:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Marshall	3 hr
Jul 12, 11:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman	3 hr
Jul 13, 10:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	31 min
Jul 13, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	38 min
Jul 13, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Pickett	27 min
Jul 13, 1:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Sumner	2 hr
Jul 13, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	23 min
Jul 13, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	34 min
Jul 13, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Trousdale	39 min
Jul 13, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	33 min
Jul 13, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford	48 min
Jul 13, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Wilson	32 min
Jul 13, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	23 min
Jul 13, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	51 min
Jul 13, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	49 min
Jul 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford	45 min
Jul 13, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	31 min
Jul 13, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	46 min
Jul 13, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	36 min
Jul 13, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy, Warren	31 min
Jul 13, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Warren	25 min
Jul 13, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	40 min
Jul 13, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	23 min
Jul 13, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Grundy	15 min
Jul 13, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	36 min
Jul 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Maury	34 min
Jul 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Wilson	44 min
Jul 13, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	43 min
Jul 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall, Rutherford, Williamson	33 min
Jul 13, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	31 min
Jul 13, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	37 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.