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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Nashville, TN

February 17, 2000Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 7:04 PM CST for Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 41 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 17, 2000, 7:04 PM CST (01:04 UTC)
Expired: Feb 17, 2000, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Maury County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 1574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 427 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 180108
SVRBNA
TNC119-180145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
704 PM CST THU FEB 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBIA
  
* UNTIL 745 PM CST

* AT 703 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA...MOVING NORTHEAST    
  AT 35 MPH.  

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR SPRING HILL BY 725 PM CST
  
DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED WITH 
THIS STORM. 

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 17, 6:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Maury	36 min
Feb 18, 12:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	41 min
Feb 18, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson	32 min
Feb 18, 5:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Stewart	51 min
Feb 18, 5:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith, Wilson	33 min
Feb 18, 5:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	37 min
Feb 18, 5:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	37 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.