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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Nashville, TN

March 3, 2000Warren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2000, 11:43 PM CST for Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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
Mar 3, 2000, 11:43 PM CST (05:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 2000, 12:15 AM CST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 173 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1267 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
239 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 040546
SVRBNA
TNC177-040615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1143 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS EXTENDED THE

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCMINNVILLE

* UNTIL 1215 AM CST

* AT 1139 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCMINNVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   THE TOWNS OF MCMINNVILLE...CAMPAIGN...AND DIBRALL
   BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 1215 AM CST.

* THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING\ LARGE...DIME SIZE...HAIL.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 11:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000Every 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.