Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 7:12 PM CDT for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stewart County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Dover, TN | Campers reported 2 trees blown down. The tornado dissipated over the lake as a waterspout. |
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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
358 WFUS54 KOHX 240016 TORBNA TNC161-240055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 712 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 755 PM CDT * AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CALLOWAY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF DOVER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES DOVER CARLISLE A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN CALLOWAY COUNTY KENTUCKY AS THIS STORM PASSED THROUGH THAT AREA. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. $$ BOYD 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston | 51 min |
| May 23, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 68 min |
| May 23, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 43 min |
| May 23, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Pickett | 29 min |
| May 23, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale | 25 min |
| May 24, 12:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Pickett | 6 hr |
| May 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 58 min |
| May 24, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 59 min |
| May 24, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 38 min |
| May 24, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 46 min |
| May 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale | 36 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.