Severe Thunderstorm Warning 453, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Aug 22, 2003, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)

Expired

Aug 22, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

41 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Davidson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 230049
SVRBNA
TNC037-230130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
749 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 741 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES WEST OF OLD HICKORY TO 5
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKEWOOD...OR FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF NASHVILLE TO
  13 MILES EAST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...NEAR
  NASHVILLE AROUND 800 PM CDT
  BERRY HILL AROUND 810 PM CDT
  OAK HILL AROUND 815 PM CDT

WEAK, SHORT LIVED TORNADOES MAY OCCUR ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER, THE MAIN THREAT IS DAMAGING
WIND. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM
OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS.

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 3637 8689 3621 8653 3597 8661 3602 8680

$$

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NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 22, 1:10 PM CDT, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
110 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2003

SURFACE BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO SLIP SOUTHWARD AND AT MID-AFTERNOON
STRETCHED ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA/ILLINOIS. NORTH WIND AND LOWER
DEWPOINTS WERE FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT. VERY LITTLE IN
THE WAY OF SHOWERS/TSTMS PRECEDING THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. SOME
CAPPING MAY BE TAKING PLACE AS SUBSIDENCE IS QUITE STRONG ALONG
WITH WARM 700 MB TEMPS.

AVN/NGM AGREE IN BRINGING BOUNDARY THROUGH WHILE ETA STALLS IT
ACROSS THE MID STATE ON SATURDAY. WARM UPPER LEVEL ANTICYCLONE
SPRAWLED ACROSS THE US CENTERED IN CENTRAL PLAINS TODAY. UPPER
RIDGE BUILDS EASTWARD OVER THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL KEEP TEMPS QUITE
WARM.

WILL GO WITH A 30 POP ACROSS THE BOARD FOR TONIGHT AS BOUNDARY GETS
CLOSER. WILL KEEP A 20 GOING OVER THE NORTH ON SATURDAY WITH A 30 POP
OVER THE SOUTH. WILL KEEP SUNDAY DRY FOR NOW BUT CANT RULE OUT
ISOLATED CONVECTION

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
NASHVILLE  72 90 67 92 69  321
CROSSVILLE 68 86 63 88 64  321

.BNA...NONE.

BOYD
01

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075>080-093>097-231100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED SPOTTER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
500 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT
A PREFRONTAL SURFACE TROUGH WAS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS
AFTERNOON...ASSOCIATED WITH A FLARE UP OF THUNDERSTORMS. IN MIDDLE
TENNESSEE...THERE IS PLENTY OF HEAT AND MOISTURE AVAILABLE FOR STORM
DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING...AS THE SYSTEM MOVES SOUTH. THUS ISOLATED
TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM SOUTH METRO NASHVILLE INTO THE CENTRAL
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE
DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL ENTER MIDDLE TENNESSEE SATURDAY MORNING AND
MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. BY SUNDAY MORNING THE FRONT WILL BE LOCATED
SOUTH OF THE REGION. THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE OF LOCALLY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL.
OTHERWISE...THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IS POSSIBLE THIS
EVENING.

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.