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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Nashville, TN

February 11, 2000Bedford County, Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 11, 2000, 10:16 PM CST for Bedford County, Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports 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: Feb 11, 2000, 10:16 PM CST (04:16 UTC)
Expired: Feb 11, 2000, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bedford County, TN, Marshall County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 11, 10:20 PM CST	Hail 1	Lewisburg, TN	Quarter size hail reported by Sheriff's office.
Feb 11, 10:55 PM CST	Hail 1	Normandy, TN	Quartter size hail covered the ground with a depth of 3 inches.

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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 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 120417
SVRBNA
TNC003-117-120445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1016 PM CST FRI FEB 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEWISBURG

* UNTIL 1045 PM CST

* AT 1011 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LEWISBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO TH{E NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NASHVILLE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 11, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	30 min
Feb 11, 10:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin	30 min
Feb 12, 1:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	32 min
Feb 12, 2:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	26 min
Feb 12, 2:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	33 min
Feb 12, 3:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Grundy	26 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.