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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 7:01 PM CST for Lawrence County, Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 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, 7:01 PM CST (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lawrence County, TN, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 190108 COR TORBNA TNC099-181-190145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 708 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 745 PM CST * AT 708 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LORETTO...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LAWRENCEBURG AT 715 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 | Rutherford, Wilson | 26 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, 7:11 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.