Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:28 PM CST for Sumner County, Trousdale County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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, 5:28 PM CST (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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.
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 |
| Jan 3, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOHX 032330 SVRBNA TNC165-169-189-040015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 528 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GALLATIN WESTERN TROUSDALE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HARTSVILLE NORTHWESTERN WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 615 PM CST * AT 525 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREEN HILL...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVER HENDERSONVILLE...3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN HILL AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOUNT JULIET AT 550 PM CST 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GALLATIN AT 610 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVI<CE FORECAST OFFICE IN NASHVILLE.
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, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 35 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.