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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Nashville, TN

May 3, 2000Humphreys County, Tennessee

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 596 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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.

$$

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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.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 1:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWayne2 hr
May 3, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRobertson25 min
May 3, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson32 min
May 3, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall, Maury35 min
May 3, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles31 min
May 3, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Moore27 min
May 3, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale25 min
May 3, 4:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXMarshall70 min
May 3, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, Warren32 min
May 3, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Grundy24 min
May 3, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb28 min
May 3, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee, Franklin36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.