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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Nashville, TN

January 3, 2000Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:25 PM CST for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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: Jan 3, 2000, 5:25 PM CST (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Stewart County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 3, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOHX 032329
SVRBNA
TNC161-040000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
525 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 519 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST OF DOVER...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF MURRAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST MONDAY EVENING 
FOR NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. 

IF YOU LIVE IN STEWART COUNTY MOVE INDOORS...PREFERABLY AN IN6TERIOR
ROOM OR BASEMENT. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

BOYD
01

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 4:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	26 min
Jan 3, 4:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	45 min
Jan 3, 5:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson	41 min
Jan 3, 5:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.