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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN

January 3, 2000Hickman County, Perry County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 7:39 PM CST for Hickman County, Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 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
Jan 3, 2000, 7:39 PM CST (01:39 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hickman County, TN, Perry County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 517 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
517 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
723 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOHX 040146
SVRBNA
TNC043-081-135-040230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
739 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DICKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DICKSON
  HICKMAN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CENTERVILLE
  PERRY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LINDEN

* UNTIL 830 PM CST

* AT 734 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
A  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
CENTERVILLE...MOVING  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DICKSON AT 755 PM CST
  CENTERVILLE AT 800 PM CST
  LINDEN AT 750 PM CST
 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.

MOVE INDOORS WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. AN INTERIOR CLOSET
OR BASEMENT IS BEST. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NASHVILLE.

BOYD
01

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 6:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Stewart35 min
Jan 3, 6:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis, Wayne44 min
Jan 3, 6:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Lewis, Maury, Williamson27 min
Jan 3, 7:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Sumner29 min
Jan 3, 7:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson51 min
Jan 3, 8:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Sumner, Wilson39 min
Jan 3, 9:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Smith, Trousdale27 min
Jan 3, 9:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson32 min
Jan 3, 9:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson39 min
Jan 3, 9:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSmith39 min
Jan 3, 9:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Rutherford37 min
Jan 3, 9:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln, Moore37 min
Jan 3, 10:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson26 min
Jan 3, 10:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXOverton, Pickett44 min
Jan 3, 10:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Putnam, White44 min
Jan 3, 10:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, Coffee, Franklin, Warren49 min
Jan 3, 10:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Fentress, Overton, Pickett35 min
Jan 3, 10:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson, Putnam35 min
Jan 3, 10:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren, White64 min
Jan 3, 10:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGrundy64 min
Jan 3, 11:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland42 min

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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.