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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN

February 18, 2000Coffee County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 7:11 PM CST for Coffee County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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, 7:11 PM CST (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Feb 18, 2000, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Coffee County, TN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 18, 7:40 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Manchester, TN	One awning was 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 190113
TORBNA
TNC003-031-055-103-117-190145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBYVILLE
  SOUTHWESTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHEASTERN GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEWISBURG

* UNTIL 745 PM CST

* AT 710 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  LY%NNVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF PULASKI...MOVING EAST AT
  65 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LEWISBURG AT 720 PM CST
  PETERSBURG AT 725 PM CST
  SHELBYVILLE AT 735 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, 7:01 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, 7:20 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.