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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 2:46 PM CDT for Humphreys County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 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
- May 3, 2000, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Humphreys County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOHX 031947 SVRBNA TNC085-032015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 246 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 245 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MCEWEN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF WAVERLY...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. HAIL...THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. $$ 15
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 11:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 11:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1155 CDT WED MAY 3 2000 HAVE UPDATED FCST TO RELFECT HIGHER POPS FOR THIS AFTERNOON. UNSTABLE AIR, WARM TEMPS AND LOW-LVL THETA-E RIDGE ORIENTED ACROSS MIDDLE TN ARE ADDING UP TO INCREASED CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS TDY. INDEED...CAN NOW SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES OVER SRN MIDDLE TN, AS CONVECTIVE TEMP IS REACHED AND BREEDING TAKES OFF WITH GUSTO. .BNA...NRONE. 19
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Wayne | 2 hr |
| May 3, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 25 min |
| May 3, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 32 min |
| May 3, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 35 min |
| May 3, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 31 min |
| May 3, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Moore | 27 min |
| May 3, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Trousdale | 25 min |
| May 3, 4:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Marshall | 70 min |
| May 3, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 32 min |
| May 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Grundy | 24 min |
| May 3, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 28 min |
| May 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin | 36 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.