Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 5:34 PM CDT for Macon County, Sumner County, Trousdale 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Macon County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 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 202235
SVRBNA
TNC111-165-169-202315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
534 PM CDT THU APR 20 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
TROUSDALE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 528 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTMORELAND...OR ABOUT 9
MILES NORTHEAST OF GALLATIN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE LAFAYETTE AND RED BOILING
SPRINGS.
DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORREN{TIAL RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT.
$$
08The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 30 min |
| Apr 20, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 25 min |
| Apr 20, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Wayne | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury | 17 min |
| Apr 20, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 21 min |
| Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Trousdale, Wilson | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 23 min |
| Apr 20, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Putnam | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.