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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Nashville, TN

April 20, 2000Cheatham County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 4:36 PM CDT for Cheatham County, Tennessee. It was in force for 24 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
Apr 20, 2000, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Cheatham County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 46 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 319 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 202136
TORBNA
TNC021-202200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
436 PM CDT THU APR 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND
  CITY...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...DAMAGING HAIL AND STRONG
WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW!
$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford, Wilson51 min
Apr 20, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson32 min
Apr 20, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Smith47 min
Apr 20, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam24 min
Apr 20, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXOverton30 min
Apr 20, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson31 min
Apr 20, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Robertson49 min
Apr 20, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson25 min
Apr 20, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Wayne34 min
Apr 20, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson53 min
Apr 20, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Maury17 min
Apr 20, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury48 min
Apr 20, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Sumner, Trousdale41 min
Apr 20, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXLewis, Maury51 min
Apr 20, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDavidson, Rutherford, Williamson26 min
Apr 20, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXWilson26 min
Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall21 min
Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXTrousdale, Wilson36 min
Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXMacon36 min
Apr 20, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXDeKalb23 min
Apr 20, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford49 min
Apr 20, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOHXPutnam51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.