Severe Thunderstorm Warning 282, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Aug 5, 2000, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)

Expired

Aug 5, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT

In force

23 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Coffee County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Warren County, TN

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000 
WUUS54 KOHX 052037 COR
SVRBNA
TNC031-061-177-052045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED WORDING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
322 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHERN GRUNDY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCMINNVILLE

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 313 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM DAVENPORT TO SUMMITVILLE...MOVING 
  EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEAR MCMINNVILLE AT 340 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

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 5, 2:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
215 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 2000

LATEST SURFACE CHART SHOWING WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS DOWN INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY TO JUST NORTH OF CELINA.
POSITION BASED LARGELY ON SURFACE BASED LI'S OFF MSAS. DOPPLER
SHOWING A FEW STORMS WORKING SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE NASHVILLE
AREA PRESENTLY.

MODELS WORK SHORT WAVE ACROSS MID STATE THIS EVENING WITH GOOD NVA
PUNCHING IN BY 06Z. AIR MASS OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE BEGINS TO DRY FROM
THE WEST AFTER 06Z TONIGHT BUT INCREASES AGAIN AFTER 12Z MON.
INITIAL DRYING IN RESPONSE TO SUBSIDENCE UNDERNEATH UPPER RIDGE AS
IT WORKS EASTWARD LATER TONIGHT AND SHORT WAVE PULLS EAST.

WILL GO BASICALLY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN MIDDLE
TENNESSEE TONIGHT WITH 30 POP ACROSS THE NORTH/40 POP NORTHEAST
MIDDLE AND ON THE PLATEAU WITH A 20 POP ACROSS THE SOUTH. WITH DRIER
AIR WORKING IN FOR SUNDAY WILL GO WITH ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING
THUNDERSTORMS.

12Z 08/05/00

                      BNA
STABILITY
VIL OF THE DAY        55
500 MB TEMP:         -7.9
400 MB TEMP:         -19.5

SHOWALTER-INDEX       00
TROPOPAUSE (MB)       112

JJ GEORGES K-INDEX    24

MILLERS TOTAL TOTALS  47
     VERTICAL TOTALS  24
        CROSS TOTALS  23

          700MB TEMP  5.8
          700MB WIND  335/23

MEAN WIND (DEGS/KTS)
SURFACE TO  5000 FT   250/07
5000 FT TO 10000 FT   315/19

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
NASHVILLE  73 93 73 92  3113
CROSSVILLE 67 86 68 86  4223

THANKS TO LOUISVILLE FOR COORDINATION.

.BNA...NONE.
BOYD
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.