Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 294, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 5:49 PM CDT for Bedford County, Coffee County, Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bedford County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Rutherford County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Murfreesboro, TN | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 092258 COR SVRBNA TNC003-031-149-092330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED FOR WORDING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 549 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBYVILLE WESTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MANCHESTER SOUTHEASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MURFREESBORO * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MURFREESBORO. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOCUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL CENTRAL RUTHERFORD COUNTY AT 600 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IT CAN PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH DAMAGING WINDS. $$ END/ORCHANIAN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 9, 2:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 2:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 220 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2000 MID AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 90 TO 95 RANGE IN MIDDLE TN WITH UPPER 80S ON THE PLATEAU. HEAT INDEX VALUES HAD REACHED THE 100-105 RANGE. CUMULUS WERE DEVELOPING MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OUR AREA. APPEARS THAT RELATIVELY WARM MID LEVEL AIR WAS CAPPING DEVELOPMENT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS NOTED TO OUR SOUTH. STILL THINK WE WILL SEE SOME ISOLATED TO SCATTERED ACTIVITY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS...SO ANY THAT POP UP COULD BE STRONG. QUESTION FOR OVERNIGHT IS IF AN MCS WILL DEVELOP TO OUR NORTHWEST AND POSSIBLY AFFECT PART OF OUR FORECAST AREA LATE TONIGHT. NOT A GREAT DEAL OF CONFIDENCE THAT AN MCS WILL HIT US IF IT DOES DEVELOP...PROBABLY JUST TO OUR NORTH. OTHERWISE...ANOTHER PARTLY CLOUDY AND MUGGY NIGHT. THURSDAY WILL BE ANOTHER HOT AND HUMID DAY. COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS MIDDLE TN THROUGH THE DAY...BUT COLD/DRY ADVECTION NOT STRONG IMMEDIATELY BEHIND IT. A SIMILAR CAPPING SITUATION WILL PROBABLY EXIST TOMORROW...BUT CONVERGENCE WITH THIS BOUNDARY WILL BE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME CONVECTIVE INHIBITION AND GIVE US SCATTERED AND MAYBE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE. MIDDLE TN WILL HAVE A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...UNDER A THETA E RIDGE WITH TOTAL TOTALS OVER 50...CAPES MORE THAN 3500...ETC. A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR THURSDAY EVENING PLATEAU AND IN THE SOUTH. THE FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH ALLOWING CLEARING THURSDAY NIGHT AS DRIER AIR ARRIVES. MOSTLY SUNNY AND LESS HUMID WEATHER WILL FOLLOW FOR FRIDAY... ALTHOUGH ENOUGH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL LINGER FOR AN ISOLATED SHOWER OVER PLATEAU. WILL NOT MENTION IN ZONES AT THIS TIME. EXTENDED LOOKS MOSTLY CLEAR WITH NEAR AVERAGE TEMPERATURES INTO SATURDAY...THEN WARMING A LITTLE ABOVE AVERAGE BY DAY 5. PRELIMINARY RNUMBERS ONLY... BNA BU 075/095/071/091 2510 CSV BB 070/089/065/087 3531 .BNA...NONE. SH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 9, 5:24 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
524 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM 10.5 SW COLUMBIA TN 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/09/00 MAURY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
REPORTED SEVERAL TREES DOWN
AT MT. PLEASANT.
JAOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Maury | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 37 min |
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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.