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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 6:34 PM CST for Rutherford County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 26 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, 6:34 PM CST (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rutherford County, TN, Wilson County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 7:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Northwest Portion, TN | Dime size hail reported by SKYWARN Spotter. |
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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 596 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 715 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
661 WFUS54 KOHX 190034 TORBNA TNC149-187-189-190100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 634 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MURFREESBORO SOUTHEASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 630 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAGLEVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MURFREESBORO AT 650 PM CST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 6:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 43 min |
| Feb 18, 6:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys | 33 min |
| Feb 18, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 30 min |
| Feb 18, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 26 min |
| Feb 18, 6:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 33 min |
| Feb 18, 6:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Wilson | 47 min |
| Feb 18, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 44 min |
| Feb 18, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Lincoln, Marshall | 34 min |
| Feb 18, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 34 min |
| Feb 18, 7:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 25 min |
| Feb 18, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford | 46 min |
| Feb 18, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Feb 18, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Moore | 45 min |
| Feb 18, 8:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 45 min |
| Feb 18, 8:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy | 45 min |
| Feb 18, 8:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.