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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Nashville, TN

February 12, 2000Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 12, 2000, 2:49 AM CST for Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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: Feb 12, 2000, 2:49 AM CST (08:49 UTC)
Expired: Feb 12, 2000, 3:15 AM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 120850
SVRBNA
TNC099-120915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
249 AM CST SAT FEB 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG

* UNTIL 315 AM CST

* AT 247 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING EAST AT
  45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAWRENCEBURG AT 300 AM CST

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE 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, 10:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	29 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, 2:57 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

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.