Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 8:02 PM CDT for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
- Jul 27, 2000, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Millersville, TN | Spotter reported quarter size hail. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
319 WUUS54 KOHX 280103 SVRBNA TNC165-280130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 802 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 754 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MILLERSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTH OF GALLATIN AT 825 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. $$ JLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 27 min |
| Jul 27, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 32 min |
| Jul 28, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 2:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Robertson | 115 min |
| Jul 28, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 23 min |
| Jul 28, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam, White | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 46 min |
| Jul 28, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.