Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 10:53 PM CST for Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 10:53 PM CST (04:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 11:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | West Portion, TN | THP reported trees blown down in the western part of the county. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 140454 SVRBNA TNC055-099-140530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1053 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PULASKI SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1130 PM CST * AT 1049 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 6 MILES NORTH OF ST. JOSEPH...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 3 MILES SOUTH OF PULASKI AT 1120 PM CST REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NASHVILLE. GIRODO
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 | Smith, Wilson | 26 min |
| 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, 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 |
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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.