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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 7:31 PM CDT for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 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, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bedford County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1081 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
595 WUUS54 KOHX 210032 SVRBNA TNC003-210100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 731 PM CDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 727 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WITH TORRENTIAL 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. $$ 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 15 min |
| Apr 20, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Warren | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Fentress | 37 min |
| Apr 20, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 14 min |
| Apr 20, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 37 min |
| Apr 20, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 28 min |
| Apr 20, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy | 25 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.