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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Nashville, TN

August 2, 2000Bedford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 12:47 PM CDT for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 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
Aug 2, 2000, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Bedford County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 2000-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1201 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 2000-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Aug 2, 10:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 10:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1000 AM CDT WED AUG 2 2000

LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACING WEAK BOUNDARIES NEAR MS RIVER AND
STRETCHED ACROSS THE GULF COAST STATES. AIRMASS SHOWING TYPICAL
SUMMER SEASON PRECIPABLE WATER/INSTABILITY. H5 TROF AGAIN HOLDING
POSITION OVER THE ERN U.S. MAIN FOCUS TODAY SEEMINGLY ACROSS THE
PLATEAU...WITH CONVECTION MOST NUMEROUS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
TEMP LOOKING IN LINE AND PLAN NO CHANGES AT THIS TIME. 07

.BNA...NONE.

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.