Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 10, 2004, 1:55 PM CST for Clay County, Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 50 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
- Dec 10, 2004, 1:55 PM CST (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2004, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, TN, Pickett County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 101955 SVROHX TNC027-137-102045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 153 PM CST FRI DEC 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CELINA PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BYRDSTOWN * UNTIL 245 PM CST * AT 146 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF CELINA...AND THE OTHER WAS JUST NORTH OF BYRDSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THROUGH 245 PM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER... NORTHERN PARTS OF PICKETT COUNTY AND CLAY COUNTY THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. LAT...LON 3664 8573 3652 8565 3654 8512 3660 8507 $$ DRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 11:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton | 61 min |
| Dec 10, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Davidson, Macon, Rutherford and 3 more | 46 min |
| Dec 10, 12:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Davidson, Macon, Rutherford and 3 more | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Macon and 6 more | 86 min |
| Dec 10, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 60 min |
| Dec 10, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy | 58 min |
| Dec 10, 2:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.