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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2000, 1:26 PM CDT for Clay County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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 23, 2000, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 May 23, 9:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 9:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 940 AM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 STRONG WAA AT LO LEVELS ALONG W/ SOME MOISTURE CONVEREGENCE IS HELPING TO TRIGGER TSTM ACTIVITY TO W. SHOULD BE MOVING INTO OUR WESTERN COUNTIES NEXT HOUR OR SO. WATCH WILL HAVE FAIR TO GOOD CHANCE OF BEING EXTENDED EASTWARD. FRONTAL POSITION WELL TO NW AND OUR TEMPS ARE NOW IN MID 60S TO MID 70S. JUST MADE UPDATE NOT TOO LONG AGO...EVERYTHING OK FOR NOW. .BNA...SVR TSTM WATCH BENTON...HUMPHREYS....HOUSTON...PERRY...STEWART COUNTIES. MAG
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 23, 8:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
858 AM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 AM DOVER TN WIND DAMAGE
05/23/00 STEWART A FEW TREES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE
0245 AM WAVERLY TN WIND DAMAGE
05/23/00 HUMPHREYS A FEW TREES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE
0400 AM COLUMBIA TN WIND DAMAGE
05/23/00 MAURY A FEW TREES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE
JBWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 26 min |
| May 23, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 33 min |
| May 23, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 29 min |
| May 23, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 20 min |
| May 23, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 27 min |
| May 23, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury | 30 min |
| May 23, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall, Maury | 30 min |
| May 23, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 49 min |
| May 23, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Pickett | 40 min |
| May 23, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 52 min |
| May 23, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 36 min |
| May 23, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Stewart | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.