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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 6:37 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Tennessee. It was in force for 23 min. 5 reports 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeKalb County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Temperance Hall, TN | Quarter size hail reported. |
| Apr 20, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Smithville, TN | A few large tree limbs blown down in the Temperance Hall area. The largest limb was 6 inches in diameter. |
| Apr 20, 6:47 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Temperance Hall, TN | Several trees and large tree limbs were down. |
| Apr 20, 6:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | North Portion, TN | EMA reported barn roof damaged in the northern part of the county. |
| Apr 20, 6:53 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Smithville, TN | Hail the size of half dollars were reported near Center Hill Dam. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 202339 TORBNA TNC041-210000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 637 PM CDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DE KALB COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 633 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALEXANDRIA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF _SMITHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED EARLIER NEAR WATERTOWN WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN IT'S PATH...PLEASE TAKE COVER NOW! $$ 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 30 min |
| Apr 20, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 25 min |
| Apr 20, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Wayne | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury | 17 min |
| Apr 20, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wilson | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 21 min |
| Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Trousdale, Wilson | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Putnam | 51 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.