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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2000, 3:41 PM CDT for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2000, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:56 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bethpage, TN | Public reported dime size hail. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
546 WUUS54 KOHX 042043 SVRBNA TNC165-042115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 341 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 339 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTMORELAND...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WESTMORELAND AT 400 PM CDT LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL AFTER THE STORM PASSES. BOYD 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 28 min |
| May 3, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| May 4, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 34 min |
| May 4, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 30 min |
| May 4, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 46 min |
| May 4, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 55 min |
| May 4, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 53 min |
| May 4, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 39 min |
| May 4, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 3 hr |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.