Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:04 PM CST for Cheatham County, Davidson County, Williamson 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:04 PM CST (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jan 3, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 29 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOHX 032310 SVRBNA TNC021-037-187-032345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 504 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE DAVIDSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF FRANKLIN AND NASHVILLE * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 501 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF FAIRVIEW...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF FRANKLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF FRANKLIN AT 540 PM CST 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OAK HILL AT 545 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NASHVILLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 26 min |
| Jan 3, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury | 45 min |
| Jan 3, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 47 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.