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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Nashville, TN

May 3, 2000Marshall County, Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 3:25 PM CDT for Marshall County, Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 2000, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 596 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 032025
SVRBNA
TNC117-119-032100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
325 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  EASTERN MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 324 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHAPEL HILL...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES NORTHWEST OF LEWISBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  4 MILES WEST OF CHAPEL HILL BY 400 PM CDT

LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 1:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWayne2 hr
May 3, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys29 min
May 3, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson25 min
May 3, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson32 min
May 3, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles31 min
May 3, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Moore27 min
May 3, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale25 min
May 3, 4:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXMarshall70 min
May 3, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, Warren32 min
May 3, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Grundy24 min
May 3, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb28 min
May 3, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee, Franklin36 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.