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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Nashville, TN

August 3, 2000Sumner County, Tennessee

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 3, 9:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EGallatin, TNLaw 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2160 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery28 min
Aug 3, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston27 min
Aug 3, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson36 min
Aug 3, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHumphreys31 min
Aug 3, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Warren32 min
Aug 4, 4:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham36 min
Aug 4, 5:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson42 min
Aug 4, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence49 min
Aug 4, 8:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln37 min
Aug 4, 9:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin38 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.