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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Nashville, TN

May 23, 2000Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 1:50 PM CDT for Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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 23, 2000, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Pickett County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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
May 23, 1:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Byrdstown, TN	Dime size hail reported.
May 23, 1:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Countywide, TN	Sheriff reported trees and power lines down across the county.

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
May 23, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

409 
WFUS54 KOHX 231851
TORBNA
TNC137-231930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
150 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 149 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BYRDSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.    
  THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGE.

TORNADOES IN HILLY TERRAIN ARE HARD TO SEE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR
HEAR A TORNADO - 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery, Stewart	26 min
May 23, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	33 min
May 23, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	29 min
May 23, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	20 min
May 23, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	27 min
May 23, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury	30 min
May 23, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall, Maury	30 min
May 23, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	49 min
May 23, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay	34 min
May 23, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	52 min
May 23, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	36 min
May 23, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Stewart	67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.