Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2000, 5:50 PM CDT for Cannon County, DeKalb County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 25 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 31, 2000, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cannon County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Wilson County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Auburntown, TN | Law enforcement reported trees down on county road near intersection of Highway 96 and 145. |
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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 806 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 312251 SVRBNA TNC015-041-189-312315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 550 PM CDT MON JUL 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CANNON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WESTERN DE KALB COUNTY IN TENNESSEE SOUTHEASTERN WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUBURNTOWN...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... THE LIBERTY-DOWELLTOWN AREA AT 610 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL RAIWNFALL 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 30, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton | 36 min |
| Jul 30, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 3:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Wayne | 3 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.