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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Nashville, TN

June 2, 2004Overton County, Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 4:12 PM CDT for Overton County, Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 2, 2004, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 5:10 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

554 
WUUS54 KOHX 022112
SVRBNA
TNC133-137-022210-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
412 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OVERTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 510 PM CDT

* AT 401 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR NORTH CENTRAL OVERTON COUNTY...OR 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF LIVINGSTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL, WHICH
MAY CAUSE INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE. TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY
BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3657 8528 3641 8537 3633 8517 3653 8509

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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 Jun 2, 3:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
302 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

.DISCUSSION...AT 19Z, A SURFACE BOUNDARY STRETCHED ACROSS NORTHERN
AND WESTERN KENTUCKY, WITH SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER DEW POINTS ON THE
NORTH SIDE OF THE FRONT. LOOK FOR THE FRONT TO DROP THROUGH THE MID
STATE OVERNIGHT, GIVING OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES A GREATER SHOT AT
OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS THAN THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA.

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH 12Z TOMORROW. BUT
GIVEN THE CURRENT PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT, AND ITS PREDICTED MOVEMENT
OVERNIGHT, STILL BELIEVE THE FOCUS WILL BE ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN
COUNTIES.

BY TOMORROW, THE BULK OF THE MOISTURE WILL HAVE SHIFTED TO OUR
SOUTH, BRINGING SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES WHILE VIRTUALLY
ELIMINATING ANY CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON
THROUGH SATURDAY.

AFTER A FEW PLEASANT DAYS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE AND MOSTLY SUNNY
SKIES, THE NEXT FRONT WILL PULL CLOSE TO THE OHIO VALLEY BY SUNDAY
EVENING. A CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER
CENTRAL ILLINOIS BY 06Z MONDAY, AND WILL DRAG A COLD FRONT NEAR THE
MID STATE, IF NOT THROUGH IT ALTOGETHER. AT ANY RATE, THIS WILL BE
OUR NEXT RAIN-PRODUCER.
&&

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

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 9:53 AM CDT, 6 hours 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
953 AM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-031030-
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-
953 AM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION TODAY, BRINGING SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE MID STATE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SOME
STORMS REACHING SEVERE CRITERIA, WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
ACTIVATION OF WEATHER SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE NEEDED
THIS AFTERNOON AS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP.

ROSE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:50 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
350 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

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

0345 PM     HAIL             BIG SANDY               36.23N 88.09W
06/02/2004  0.75 INCH        BENTON             TN   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:57 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
357 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

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

0354 PM     HAIL             BIG SANDY               36.23N 88.09W
06/02/2004  1.00 INCH        BENTON             TN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	26 min
Jun 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	31 min
Jun 2, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury	46 min
Jun 2, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	45 min
Jun 2, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart	37 min
Jun 2, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	37 min
Jun 2, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury, Williamson	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2004 Every 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.