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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Nashville, TN

May 4, 2000Sumner County, Tennessee

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 4, 3:56 PM CDTHail 0.75Bethpage, TNPublic 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 113 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 2000-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln28 min
May 3, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Humphreys49 min
May 4, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Stewart34 min
May 4, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery, Stewart30 min
May 4, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton46 min
May 4, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry, Wayne55 min
May 4, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Stewart53 min
May 4, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery39 min
May 4, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery28 min
May 4, 6:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXMontgomery, Stewart3 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.