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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN

March 19, 20034 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 9:17 AM CST for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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: Mar 19, 2003, 9:17 AM CST (15:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2003, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clay County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Smith 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
Mar 19, 8:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 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.

677 
WUUS54 KOHX 191517
SVRBNA
TNC027-087-111-159-191600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
916 AM CST WED MAR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  JACKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SMITH COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1000 AM CST

* AT 905 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED BOILING SPRINGS...OR
  8 MILES WEST OF CARTHAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RED BOILING SPRINGS AROUND 935 AM CST

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY FOR
TENNESSEE.

&&

LAT...LON 3662 8573 3651 8560 3622 8602 3628 8612
          3638 8604 3638 8599 3642 8597 3645 8605
          3662 8587

$$
END/ORCHANIAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 7:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	24 min
Mar 19, 7:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	47 min
Mar 19, 8:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln	45 min
Mar 19, 8:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	35 min
Mar 19, 9:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford, Wilson	30 min
Mar 19, 9:14 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee	31 min
Mar 19, 9:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Moore	51 min
Mar 19, 10:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	43 min
Mar 19, 10:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Warren	36 min
Mar 19, 10:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Warren	44 min
Mar 19, 10:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Putnam	47 min
Mar 19, 11:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson and 6 more	3 hr
Mar 19, 11:17 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton, Putnam	43 min
Mar 19, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Warren	47 min
Mar 19, 11:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren, White	32 min
Mar 19, 11:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton, Pickett	25 min
Mar 19, 11:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	17 min
Mar 19, 12:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren, White	44 min
Mar 19, 12:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Overton	29 min
Mar 19, 12:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren, White	27 min
Mar 19, 12:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Van Buren	14 min
Mar 19, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton, Pickett	36 min
Mar 19, 1:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	White	14 min
Mar 19, 1:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	26 min
Mar 19, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, Warren, White	51 min
Mar 19, 1:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam	31 min
Mar 19, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress	25 min
Mar 19, 2:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Warren, White	2 hr
Mar 19, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton, Putnam	47 min
Mar 19, 2:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress, Pickett	24 min
Mar 19, 2:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Fentress, Overton	29 min
Mar 19, 3:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Pickett	39 min

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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.