Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 5:53 PM CST for Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2000, 5:53 PM CST (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maury County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 6:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, TN | A few trees were blown down. |
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.
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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 182354 TORBNA TNC119-149-187-190030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 553 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE NORTHWESTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FRANKLIN * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 555 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF SPRING HILL...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SPRING HUILL AT 605 PM CST FRANKLIN AT 615 PM CST NOLENSVILLE...BRENTWOOD AT 625 PM CST
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, 5:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 33 min |
| Feb 18, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 37 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.