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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Nashville, TN

May 23, 2000Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2000, 2:24 PM CDT for Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 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, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Pickett County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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.

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, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 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

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The text

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

809 
WUUS54 KOHX 231925
SVRBNA
TNC137-232000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
224 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 220 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BYRDSTOWN... MOVING 
  SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
$$

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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 May 23, 9:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 9:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 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.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 8:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 26 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

JBW

Special weather statement, May 23, 1:28 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

TNZ009>011-029>034-064>066-080-232300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
128 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

...THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCHES FOR THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU REGION THIS AFTERNOON...
TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE CUMBERLAND
PLATEAU REGION THIS AFTERNOON. ONE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES
MACON...CLAY...TROUSDALE...SMITH...AND DEKALB COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM
CDT. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PICKETT...
OVERTON...FENTRESS...PUTNAM...CUMBERLAND...AND VAN BUREN COUNTIES
UNTIL 600 PM CDT.

HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS OF UP TO
80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

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JBW

Local storm report, May 23, 2:01 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
201 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0155 PM    BYRDSTOWN                 TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/23/00   PICKETT                        SHERIFF REPORTED TREES AND
                                          POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS
                                          COUNTY

Local storm report, May 23, 2:07 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
207 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0150 PM    3 NNE BYRDSTOWN           TN   .75 INCH HAIL
05/23/00   PICKETT                        SPOTTER REPORTED THE HAIL
                                          AT GREEN BRIER

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The 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, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay	34 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, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Stewart	67 min

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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.