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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT for Giles County, Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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 9, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Giles County, TN, Maury County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Columbia, TN | Sheriff's office reported several trees down at Mt. Pleasant. |
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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 2687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 092201 SVRBNA TNC055-119-092245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 500 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PULASKI SOUTHWESTERN MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MOUNT PLEASANT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHERN MAURY COUNTY AT 510 PM CDT RURAL NORTHWESTERN GILES COUNTY AT 530 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. $$ 14
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Rutherford | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.