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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 3:38 PM CST for Dickson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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 25, 2000, 3:38 PM CST (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickson County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:10 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | White Bluff, TN | TV station reported dime size hail covering the ground. |
| Mar 25, 4:15 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | White Bluff, TN | SKYWARN Spotter reported golf ball size hail. |
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1373 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 252142 SVRBNA TNC043-252230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 338 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DICKSON COUNTY * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 336 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST DICKSON COUNTY MOVING EAST 1AT 20 MPH. * TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE VANLEER...CHARLOTTE...AND WHITE BLUFF. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. $$ 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 32 min |
| Mar 25, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.