Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2000, 5:32 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Tennessee. It was in force for 28 min. 2 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
- May 4, 2000, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 5:49 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Oakwood, TN | Public reported walnut size hail. |
| May 4, 5:51 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Woodlawn, TN | Trained spotter reported half dollar size hail. |
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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
196 WFUS54 KOHX 042234 TORBNA TNC125-042300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 532 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CLARKSVILLE * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLARKSVILLE...OR JUST WEST OF PALMYRA MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE IT OR HEAR IT GO TO A SAFE PLACE AND TAKE COVER NOW $$ JDG/BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 28 min |
| May 3, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| May 4, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 34 min |
| May 4, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 30 min |
| May 4, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 34 min |
| May 4, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 46 min |
| May 4, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 55 min |
| May 4, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 53 min |
| May 4, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 39 min |
| May 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 3 hr |
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.