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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Nashville, TN

May 24, 2000Jackson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 9:22 PM CDT for Jackson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 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 24, 2000, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 3627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

292 
WUUS54 KOHX 250223
SVRBNA
TNC087-250300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
922 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GAINESBORO

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 918 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GAINESBORO...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

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

A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY 
MORNING FOR TENNESSEE.
$$
BOYD
01

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	52 min
May 24, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	54 min
May 24, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	57 min
May 24, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	59 min
May 24, 8:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon	51 min
May 24, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	54 min
May 24, 10:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	3 hr
May 24, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	49 min
May 24, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	50 min
May 24, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	53 min
May 24, 11:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	87 min
May 25, 12:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	35 min
May 25, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	42 min
May 25, 12:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford	38 min
May 25, 1:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	35 min
May 25, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith	38 min
May 25, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford, Williamson	35 min
May 25, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam, White	39 min
May 25, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	35 min
May 25, 2:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson	4 hr
May 25, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	35 min
May 25, 2:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Humphreys	39 min
May 25, 2:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman	28 min
May 25, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	34 min
May 25, 3:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	42 min
May 25, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	42 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.