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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Nashville, TN

March 10, 2000Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 12:43 PM CST for Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 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: Mar 10, 2000, 12:43 PM CST (18:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 10, 1:28 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Lawrenceburg, TN	Dime size hailed reported by SKYWARN spotter on U.S. Hwy 64.

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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 373 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 406 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 101846
SVRBNA
TNC099-101930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1243 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1238 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF ETHRIDGE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ETHRIDGE AT 1250 PM CST

LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMSD APPROACH SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

BOYD
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 10, 9:18 AM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 9:18 AM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
920 AM CST FRI MAR 9 2000

SOME ELEVATED INSTABILITY TSRA SET OFF THIS MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL
PORTIONS OF CWA...W/ EVEN SOME ALARMS FOR HAIL GOING OFF.  DON'T
EXPECT THIS TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE.  CLOUDS TO W OF BNA ARE PRETTY
LOW...BUT NOT EXPANDING.  BOUNDARY APPEARS TO BE IN SE CORNER OF CWA.

MAY DECIDE TO UPDATE TO REFLECT THESE SMALL CHANGES.  TEMPS LOOK TO
BE ON TRACK.

.BNA...NONE.

MAG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Marshall, Maury	45 min
Mar 10, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	45 min
Mar 10, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	45 min
Mar 10, 1:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	118 min
Mar 10, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford	47 min
Mar 10, 1:47 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Rutherford	118 min
Mar 10, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	62 min
Mar 10, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	47 min
Mar 10, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee	58 min
Mar 10, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	58 min
Mar 10, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	41 min
Mar 10, 3:27 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	2 hr
Mar 10, 3:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland	114 min
Mar 10, 3:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	2 hr
Mar 10, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	63 min
Mar 10, 5:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Wayne	3 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.