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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Nashville, TN

February 18, 2000Smith County, Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 5:42 PM CST for Smith County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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: Feb 18, 2000, 5:42 PM CST (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Feb 18, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Smith County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 18, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 541 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 683 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 182343
TORBNA
TNC159-189-190015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
542 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SMITH COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CARTHAGE
  CENTRAL WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEBANON

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 540 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF BELINDA
  CITY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEBANON...MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LEBANON AT 550 PM CST
  WAeTERTOWN AT 600 PM CST
  
$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 17, 6:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Maury	36 min
Feb 17, 7:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	41 min
Feb 18, 12:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	41 min
Feb 18, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson	32 min
Feb 18, 5:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Stewart	51 min
Feb 18, 5:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	37 min
Feb 18, 5:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.