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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 278, NWS Nashville, TN

July 14, 2004Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2004, 3:27 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 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 14, 2004, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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.

Did it verify

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.

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 14, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1898 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 142027
SVRBNA
TNC099-142115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
326 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 323 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ETHRIDGE TO
  8 MILES NORTHWEST OF LORETTO...OR FROM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  LAWRENCEBURG TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...NEAR
  IN SOUTHEASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY BY 350 TO 355 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 3530 8758 3541 8723 3539 8721 3518 8723
      3514 8721 3513 8723 3511 8721 3502 8723
      3502 8723 3502 8741

$$
END/JAO

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 2:35 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:35 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
235 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

.DISCUSSION...
LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWING COLD FRONT MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS
NORTHERN MIDDLE TN THIS AFTERNOON...WITH PREFRONTAL BOUNDARY NOW
WELL EAST AND SOUTH. COLD FRONT BECOMING LITTLE MORE ACTIVE AS
SHWRS/TSTMS DEVELOPING ACROSS MOST OF THE SOUTH CWA.

ML/UL CLOSED LOWS EXPECTED TO DRIFT FROM THE GREAT LAKES VICINITY
INTO THE NORTHEAST OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS...KEEPING THE CWA IN
NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT.

SINKING COLD FRONT REMAINING ACTIVE THIS AFTERNOON IN VERY MOISTURE
LADEN AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. EXPECT ISOLATED LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS WITH STORMS ACROSS MAINLY THE SOUTH INTO THIS EVENING.

ML/UL FLOW DRIVING COLD FRONT AND DEEPER MOISTURE FURTHER SOUTH
LATER TONIGHT/EARLY THURSDAY...SEEMINGLY SHIFTING FOCUS FOR
CONVECTION MAINLY WEST AND SOUTH OF THE CWA. ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED
SHOWER OR STORM NOT OUT THE QUESTION...WILL NOT PUT IN ANY POPS
AFTER TONIGHT UNTIL SATURDAY WHEN NEXT IMPULSES SLIDE BY AND WEAK
LL BOUNDARY SETS UP OVER THE AREA.

&&

.BNA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

07

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 5:30 AM CDT, 9 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
530 AM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-151030-
BEDFORD-BENTON-CANNON-CHEATHAM-CLAY-COFFEE-CUMBERLAND-DAVIDSON-
DEKALB-DICKSON-FENTRESS-GILES-GRUNDY-HICKMAN-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-
JACKSON-LAWRENCE-LEWIS-MACON-MARSHALL-MAURY-MONTGOMERY-OVERTON-PERRY-
PICKETT-PUTNAM-ROBERTSON-RUTHERFORD-SMITH-STEWART-SUMNER-TROUSDALE-
VAN BUREN-WARREN-WAYNE-WHITE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-
530 AM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN THIS TODAY
AND THIS EVENING. DESPITE THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WHICH PUSHED
THROUGH THE MID STATE ON TUESDAY EVENING, THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS
MOIST AND UNSTABLE. THEREFORE, LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL STORMS TO DEVELOP
IN THE HUMID AIR MASS.

THE PRIMARY DANGER FROM TODAYS ACTIVITY WILL ONCE AGAIN BE DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS, LARGE HAIL, AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION,
THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNDER A
SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ADDITIONALLY, HEAT INDICES VALUES MAY TOP 100 DEGREES AGAIN TODAY,
MAINLY IN AREAS SOUTH OF NASHVILLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE NEEDED
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ROSE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 1:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
145 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0142 PM     HAIL             8 NW MANCHESTER         35.55N 86.18W
07/14/2004  1.00 INCH        COFFEE             TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

MED

Local storm report, Jul 14, 2:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
201 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0200 PM     HAIL             MANCHESTER              35.47N 86.08W
07/14/2004  0.88 INCH        COFFEE             TN   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

MED

Local storm report, Jul 14, 2:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
203 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0203 PM     HAIL             2 N TULLAHOMA           35.40N 86.22W
07/14/2004  0.88 INCH        COFFEE             TN   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

MED

Local storm report, Jul 14, 2:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
204 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0203 PM     HAIL             6 SSE SHELBYVILLE       35.41N 86.41W
07/14/2004  0.88 INCH        BEDFORD            TN   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

MED

Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:07 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
307 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0307 PM     HAIL             LAWRENCEBURG            35.25N 87.34W
07/14/2004  1.00 INCH        LAWRENCE           TN   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

MED

Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:13 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
313 PM CDT WED JUL 14 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0312 PM     HAIL             2 S LAWRENCEBURG        35.22N 87.34W
07/14/2004  0.88 INCH        LAWRENCE           TN   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

MED

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Robertson, Sumner, Trousdale	65 min
Jul 13, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	59 min
Jul 13, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	58 min
Jul 13, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	49 min
Jul 13, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	52 min
Jul 13, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	65 min
Jul 13, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	50 min
Jul 13, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	59 min
Jul 13, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	50 min
Jul 13, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford	79 min
Jul 13, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	59 min
Jul 13, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	45 min
Jul 13, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton, Pickett	67 min
Jul 13, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	50 min
Jul 13, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	59 min
Jul 13, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	74 min
Jul 13, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	73 min
Jul 13, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, White	69 min
Jul 13, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	42 min
Jul 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	80 min
Jul 13, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	59 min
Jul 13, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	53 min
Jul 13, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy, Van Buren	65 min
Jul 13, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	31 min
Jul 13, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	52 min
Jul 13, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	58 min
Jul 13, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	42 min
Jul 13, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	48 min
Jul 14, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Macon	24 min
Jul 14, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	24 min
Jul 14, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	36 min
Jul 14, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Trousdale	24 min
Jul 14, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Trousdale, Wilson	34 min
Jul 14, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	32 min
Jul 14, 6:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Macon	35 min
Jul 14, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Overton	34 min
Jul 14, 7:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Pickett	15 min
Jul 14, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress, Pickett	15 min
Jul 14, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	45 min
Jul 14, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	28 min
Jul 14, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Maury	64 min
Jul 14, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy	44 min
Jul 14, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	55 min
Jul 14, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	66 min
Jul 14, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	53 min
Jul 14, 3:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	2 hr
Jul 14, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	49 min
Jul 14, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.