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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Nashville, TN

March 25, 2000Bedford County, Marshall County, Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 25, 2000, 5:15 PM CST for Bedford County, Marshall County, Rutherford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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: Mar 25, 2000, 5:15 PM CST (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bedford County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Mar 25, 5:20 PM CST	Tornado F0	Eagleville, TN	TEMA confirmed report of a tornado. The tornado did no damage.

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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 312 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 252319
TORBNA
TNC003-117-149-260000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
515 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BEDFORD COUNTY
  NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY
  SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 510 PM CST...DOPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ABOUT 7 MILES     
  NORTHWEST OF EAGLEVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE PUBLIC AND 
  SPOTTERS HAVE ALSO SIGHTED THIS TORNADO.

* TOWNS IN THE IMMEDIATE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE EAGLEVILLE AND 
  ROVER.

THIS TORNADO IS LIKELY WRAPPED IN RAIN - DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE IT 
OR HEAR IT! GO TO A SAFE PLACE AND TAKE COVER NOW!
$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	52 min
Mar 25, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	32 min
Mar 25, 4:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	40 min
Mar 25, 4:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Williamson	42 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Tennessee, 2000 Every tornado warning in 2000 Tornadoes in 2000

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.