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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Nashville, TN

December 16, 2000Cumberland County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 5:15 PM CST for Cumberland 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: Dec 16, 2000, 5:15 PM CST (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Cumberland County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 16, 5:40 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Countywide, TN	Law enforcement reported several trees blown 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 16, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 445 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 500 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 162316
SVRBNA
TNC035-170000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
515 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CROSSVILLE

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 515 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PLEASANT HILL...MOVING EAST AT 45 TO 50 
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FAIRFIELD GLADE AT 525 PM CST

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST 
SATURDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE. 
$$
JBW


LAT...LON 3605 8528 3588 8521 3611 8426 3633 8435

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 15, 9:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford	3 hr
Dec 16, 12:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Macon, Maury, Rutherford and 4 more	3 hr
Dec 16, 12:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	48 min
Dec 16, 1:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall	2 hr
Dec 16, 1:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Overton, Smith	105 min
Dec 16, 2:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	105 min
Dec 16, 2:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Grundy, Warren	93 min
Dec 16, 3:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Putnam, White	2 hr
Dec 16, 3:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marshall and 6 more	105 min
Dec 16, 3:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Moore, Warren	85 min
Dec 16, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Grundy	37 min
Dec 16, 4:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress and 11 more	3 hr
Dec 16, 5:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	40 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.