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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Nashville, TN

May 27, 2000Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 5:19 PM CDT for Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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 27, 2000, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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 27, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1998 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 244 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
1998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.2
Supercell composite
12.0

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The text

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

470 
WUUS54 KOHX 272219
SVRBNA
TNC055-099-272300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
519 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PULASKI
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 519 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF LAWRENCEBURG MOVING EAST AT 
  45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEAR PULASKI AT 545 PM CDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING 
FOR TENNESSEE. 

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY 
LIGHTNING.
$$
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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 27, 2:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
240 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

SHORT AND SWEET. SURFACE BOUNDARY FROM SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA THROUGH
ARKANSAS AND NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE APPEARS TO BE GENERATING
MOVE SEVERE WEATHER WITH A HIGHLY DIFFLUENT AREA ALOFT AND A STRONG
THETA-E GRADIENT CENTERED ON A LINE FROM BOWLING GREEN TO JACKSON TO
SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. SEVERE WX SHOULD TAIL OFF AFTER THE EARLY EVENING
HOURS WITH MORE THUNDERSTORMS DUE WHEN THE COLD FRONT MOVES IN LATE
TONIGHT...BUT THESE WILL PROBABLY NOT BE SEVERE. COOLING AND DRIER
SUN-MON.

BNA EB 066/080 058/083 063 18831
CSV TB 065/072 054/078 060 18852

.BNA...NONE.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson35 min
May 26, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Robertson44 min
May 26, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson, Sumner40 min
May 26, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall, Maury, Williamson40 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford30 min
May 26, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford31 min
May 26, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall26 min
May 26, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford65 min
May 26, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren30 min
May 26, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam37 min
May 26, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren29 min
May 26, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland, White39 min
May 27, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart42 min
May 27, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXHouston, Montgomery, Stewart42 min
May 27, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson45 min
May 27, 3:05 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMontgomery40 min
May 27, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXRobertson40 min
May 27, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXCheatham15 min
May 27, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson37 min
May 27, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner35 min
May 27, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale, Wilson41 min
May 27, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSmith33 min
May 27, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson43 min
May 27, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXOverton, Putnam43 min
May 27, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPickett43 min
May 27, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXJackson, Overton35 min
May 27, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFentress43 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.