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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Nashville, TN

May 26, 2000Benton County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 5:46 PM CDT for Benton 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 26, 2000, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 6:20 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Benton County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Big Sandy, TN	Several homes had damage by trees falling on them. Other homes had shingles peeled off. The hardest hit areas were New Hope Road, Fanning road and Morris Wheatley Road.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 262250
SVRBNA
TNC005-262320-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
546 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BENTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAMDEN

* UNTIL 620 PM CDT

* AT 543 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMDEN MOVING          
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR TENNESSEE.

THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
$$
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JBW

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 26, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
250 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

FORECAST QUANDARIES...CONVECTION STRENGTH THROUGH PERIOD...TEMPS.

A LINE OF TS..SOME OF WHICH WERE SVR...HAVE MOVED INTO THE
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU REGION AFTER VISITING THE MID STATE
WITH HIGHS WINDS AND SEVERAL REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE IN THE
BNA VICINITY. CURRENT AWOS/ASOS OBSERVATIONS AND REGIONAL
SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING SOME BREAKS IN LOW LEVEL CLOUDINESS
ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF REGION. MSAS/LATEST SURFACE ANALYSES
SHOWING COLD FRONT POSITIONED TO OUR WEST WITH SURFACE LOW
OVER NORTHERN AL.

12Z FRI REGIONAL MODEL INITIALIZATION SURFACE AND ALOFT ALONG
WITH PROGGED EVOLUTION THROUGH 00Z MON SIMILAR. IN AGREEMENT WITH
LATEST MODEL DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION THAT AVN SHOULD BE THE PREFERRED
MODEL OF CHOICE...AS ITS STRENGTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF UPPER LEVEL
LOW INTO THE EASTERN OHIO VALLEY BY 00Z MON MOST LIKELY.

AVN MODEL RH TRENDS STILL SUPPORTING MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES THROUGH 00Z
SUN...BUT SCT CONVECTION SHOULD BE LIMITED TO MOSTLY CWA/S WESTERN
PORTIONS WITH RIDGING STRENGTHENING OCCURRING EAST.

LOOK FOR SURFACE FRONTAL PASSAGE THROUGH AREA BETWEEN 06Z-12Z SUN
...WITH UPPER LEVEL TROUGH PASSAGE AROUND 18Z SUN. BEST DYNAMICS
SHOULD OCCUR BEFORE SURFACE FRONTAL PASSAGE. WILL GO WITH
CLOUDY SKIES AND LIKELY POPS WEST AND CENTRAL WITH SCATTERED POPS
EAST. WILL CONTINUE THE TREND OF LIKELY POPS EAST MORNING..WITH
SCATTERED POPS ELSEWHERE.  LOOK FOR DECREASING CLOUDINESS DURING
THE AFTERNOON HOURS AS RIDGING BUILDS IN FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS.

EXTENDED...LOOK FOR RIDGING INFLUENCES TO CONTINUE THROUGH 00Z THU.

TEMPS...NGM MOS TOO HIGH ON BOTH HIGHS AND LOWS THROUGH THE PERIOD.
AVN TOO WARM ON LOWS TONIGHT...BUT WILL TREND TOWARD ITS VALUES
FOR THE REMAINDER OF FORECAST PERIOD.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY...

BNA 067/088/065/083 2264
CSV 063/083/063/078 1156

.BNA...NONE.
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JBW

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 12:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
1255 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

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

1218 PM    11 SW NASHVILLE           TN   70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
05/26/00   DAVIDSON                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER IN
                                          BELLEVUE

1238 PM    6 S NASHVILLE             TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/00   DAVIDSON                       SPOTTER REPORTED TREES AND
                                          POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN AS
                                          WELL AS DAMAGE TO A
                                          STRUCTURE AT I-65 AND
                                          HARDING

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Local storm report, May 26, 1:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
120 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

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

1242 PM    BRENTWOOD                 TN   WIND DAMAGE
05/26/00   WILLIAMSON                     TEN TREES UP TO ONE FOOT
                                          IN DIAMETER WERE BLOWN DOWN
                                          AT MARYLAND
                                          FARMS...REPORTED BY A
                                          SPOTTER

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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 26, 11:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	38 min
May 26, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	31 min
May 26, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	34 min
May 26, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	49 min
May 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	40 min
May 26, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	42 min
May 26, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	34 min
May 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Montgomery	44 min
May 26, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.