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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Nashville, TN

May 24, 2000Cheatham County, Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 10:56 PM CDT for Cheatham County, Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 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, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 24, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3627 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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.

721 
WUUS54 KOHX 250359
SVRBNA
TNC021-037-250445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1056 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEATHAM COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NASHVILLE...ASHLAND CITY

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1053 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEGRAM...OR ABOUT 7 
MILES   SOUTH OF ASHLAND CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE AT 1120 PM CDT
  GOODLETTSVILLE AT 1135  PM CDT

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

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 24, 8:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
840 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE. ACTIVITY THIS EVE
HAS FIRED ALONG/JUST AHEAD OF FRONT...WITH ACTIVITY LAST FEW HOURS
BECOMING MORE E-W ORIENTED AND BACKBUILDING INTO HIGHER THETA-E.
HAD A VERY INTERESTING-LOOKING SPLIT CELL IN KY EARLIER.

STILL ISSUING AN OCCASIONAL SEVERE TSTM WARNING. WILL CONTINUE TO
MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING PROBLEMS LATER IN N COUNTIES AS FRONT
SAGS SOUTHWARD OVERNITE.

NO UPDATES AT THIS TIME.

.BNA...TORNADO WATCH MUCH OF N AND NE SECTIONS TIL MIDNITE.

MAG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSmith52 min
May 24, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson54 min
May 24, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Sumner, Trousdale57 min
May 24, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery59 min
May 24, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMacon51 min
May 24, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson38 min
May 24, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson54 min
May 24, 10:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson3 hr
May 24, 11:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson50 min
May 24, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Wilson53 min
May 24, 11:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson87 min
May 25, 12:10 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Wilson35 min
May 25, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Williamson42 min
May 25, 12:37 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXRutherford38 min
May 25, 1:00 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXWilson35 min
May 25, 1:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Smith38 min
May 25, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, Rutherford, Williamson35 min
May 25, 1:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam, White39 min
May 25, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton35 min
May 25, 2:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXDavidson4 hr
May 25, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland35 min
May 25, 2:36 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXHumphreys39 min
May 25, 2:47 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXHickman28 min
May 25, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb34 min
May 25, 3:13 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXMaury42 min
May 25, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Coffee42 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.