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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 6:41 PM CDT for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 min. 4 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, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bedford County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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, 6:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Shelbyville, TN | City police reported trees and power lines down. |
| Apr 20, 7:04 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Shelbyville, TN | Report by public at Bedford County Hospital of hail the size of golf balls. |
| Apr 20, 7:08 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Wartrace, TN | Spotter reported trees blown down. |
| Apr 20, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Wartrace, TN | The tornado first touched down about 2.5 mles west of Wartrace at the intersection of Railroad Avenue and Horse Mountain Road...having an intensity of F1 and a width of about 200 feet. The total path length is about 2 miles.The greatest amount of damage and t |
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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 202342 TORBNA TNC003-210030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 641 PM CDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 639 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHELBYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SHELBYVILLE. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...DAMAGING HAIL AND STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE 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, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 23 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.