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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 4:20 PM CST for Davidson County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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, 4:20 PM CST (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Davidson County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 25, 4:34 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Franklin, TN | Nickel size hail reported. |
| Mar 25, 4:34 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Bellevue, TN | Nickel size hail reported at the intersection of Highways 100 and 96. |
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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 312 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 252223 SVRBNA TNC037-187-252300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 420 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DAVIDSON COUNTY WILLIAMSON COUNTY * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 411 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN KINGSTON SPRINGS AND FAIRVIEW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * TOWNS IN THE IMMEDIATE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FAIRVIEW AND BELLEVUE. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE ALSO EXPECTED. TAKE COVER NOW. $$ 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 52 min |
| Mar 25, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.