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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN

January 3, 2000Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 4:04 PM CST for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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, 4:04 PM CST (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, TN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 3, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOHX 032205
TORBNA
TNC181-032230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
404 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO

* UNTIL 430 PM CST

* AT 402 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WAYNESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE ...
  4 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO AT 435 PM CST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON 
FOR TENNESSEE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 4:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	45 min
Jan 3, 5:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson	41 min
Jan 3, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	35 min
Jan 3, 5:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	47 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.