Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2000, 2:18 PM CDT for Macon County, Sumner County, Trousdale County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 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 5, 2000, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Macon County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Gallatin, TN | NWS employee reported trees 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 12:00Z, 7.3 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
- 1418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 051921 SVRBNA TNC111-165-169-051945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 218 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE EAST CENTRAL SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE TROUSDALE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HARTSVILLE * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 206 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY 231 MOVING EAST INTO WESTERN MACON AND TROUSDALE COUNTIES. STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HARTSVILLE AT 230 PM CDT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE AT 245 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Wilson | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy, Warren | 23 min |
| Aug 5, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 41 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.