Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 165
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 25, 2003, 11:50 AM CDT for 22 counties in Kentucky; 49 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2003, 11:50 AM CDT (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 71 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 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.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 50 min |
| Apr 25, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Marshall, Williamson | 32 min |
| Apr 25, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Marshall | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Marshall | 29 min |
| Apr 25, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 49 min |
| Apr 25, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Lyon | 43 min |
| Apr 25, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 46 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 11:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Graves, Hopkins, Lyon and 4 more | 116 min |
| Apr 25, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Livingston, Logan and 6 more | 113 min |
| Apr 25, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell and 34 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 33 more | 91 min |
| Apr 24, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman and 6 more | 90 min |
| Apr 25, 3:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 5 more | 85 min |
| Apr 25, 1:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Lewis and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Clay, Coffee and 28 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 6:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bledsoe, Bradley, Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress and 13 more | 87 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.