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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:34 PM CST for Smith County, Wilson 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 13, 2000, 6:34 PM CST (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Smith County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 523 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 558 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 140036 SVRBNA TNC149-159-189-140100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 634 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE SOUTHWESTERN SMITH COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 626 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF LA VERGNE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR WALTERHILL AT 640 PM CST 9 MILES WEST OF GORDONSVILLE AT 705 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE. DAMAGING HAIL AND WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NASHVILLE. $$ JLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 6:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Sumner | 4 hr |
| Feb 13, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 26 min |
| Feb 13, 8:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 8:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Macon | 2 hr |
| Feb 13, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 36 min |
| Feb 13, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 44 min |
| Feb 13, 9:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren, White | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 37 min |
| Feb 13, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 35 min |
| Feb 14, 12:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 29 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.