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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Nashville, TN

August 7, 2000Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 12:37 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 23 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 7, 2000, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 2000-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 976 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 2000-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 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
976 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 071738
SVRBNA
TNC125-161-071800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1237 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHERN STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT

* AT 1228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN STEWART COUNTY...NEAR BUMPUS     
  MILLS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  OAKWOOD IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 1255 PM CDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED W4ITH
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson26 min
Aug 7, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb, Wilson34 min
Aug 7, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Putnam, Warren, White46 min
Aug 7, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon46 min
Aug 7, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee, Warren45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.