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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 8:47 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
- Aug 3, 2000, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 9:15 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 01:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Gallatin, TN | Law enforcement reported large tree blown down. |
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, 1.8 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
- 2160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 040148 SVRBNA TNC165-040215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 847 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 838 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORTLAND...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF GALLATIN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL CENTRAL SUMNER COUNTY AT 900 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STTRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Warren | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 9:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 38 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.