Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

May 3, 2000, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)

Expired

May 3, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT

In force

25 min

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Robertson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
WUUS54 KOHX 031951
SVRBNA
TNC147-032015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
250 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CEDAR HILL...OR ABOUT 9   
  MILES WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. HAIL TO UP TO  
  AN INCH IN DIAMETER IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CEDAR HILL AND ADAMS BY 300 PM CDT

$$

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NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 2:50 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
250 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHWARD ACROSS OUR
CWA, THRIVING ON SOME JUICY THETA-E AIR IN THE 1000-850MB LYR.
THINGS POPPED IN A HURRY ONCE CONVECTIVE TEMP WAS ACHIEVED, BUT
SHOULD DIE DOWN ABOUT AS FAST ONCE THE SUN GOES DOWN. THIS
IS DEFINITELY A SUMMER-LIKE PATTERN, WITH CONVECTION DRIVEN
PRIMARILY BY AN UNSTABLE BOUNDARY LAYER AND DAYTIME HEATING.
ISOLATED SVR TSTMS ARE PSBL THROUGH MAX HEATING TIME TDY.

TEMPS TODAY HAVEN'T HAD ANY TROUBLE HITTING 81 AND 82 DEGS, AND
DON'T EXPECT ANY CHANGE IN OUR WEATHER PATTERN OVER THE NEXT FEW
DAYS. THUS, WILL PROBABY TREND MAX TEMPS VERY CLOSE TO FWC GUIDANCE.

EXPECT CLOSED LOW OVER OK TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY EWD NEXT FEW DAYS
(AS ALL WELL-BEHAVED CLOSED LOWS SHOULD), AND KEEP BEST UPPER-LVL
TSTM DYNAMICS WEST OF MIDDLE TN. NEVERTHELESS, STILL LOOK FOR SCTD
AFTERNOON TSTMS EACH DAY, AS WARM SUNSHINE AND MOIST LOW LVLS
WORK THEIR MAGIC. IS HARD TO PEG EXACTLY WHERE LOW-LVL THETA-E RIDGE
WILL BE FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT (WHICH IS WHERE MOST NUMEROUS TSTMS
WILL BE). HOWEVER, BLV IT WILL PROBABLY BE VERY CLOSE TO OUR NECK OF
THE WOODS. SO, AM NOT YET READY TO BUY THE REDUCED POPS PROMOTED BY
MODELS FOR FRI (ESPECIALLY SINCE UPPER LVL DIFFLUENCE SHOULD ACTUALLY
BECOME MORE LIKELY IN MIDDLE TN AS UPPER LOW MOVES CLOSER TO MS
RIVER). FOR NOW, WILL PROBABLY JUST ADD ABOUT 10% TO 4TH PD POPS AND
WAIT FOR MODELS TO (HOPEFULLY) CLEAR UP THIS QUESTION OVER THE NEXT
24 HRS.

BNA BB 062/082/062/082 19352
CSV BB 058/078/060/079 19352

.BNA...NONE.

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

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.