Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 49, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 7:54 PM CDT for Houston County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2000, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, TN
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, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
617 WFUS54 KOHX 240057 TORBNA TNC083-240145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 754 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HOUSTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF TENNESSEE RIDGE...MCKINNON AND ERIN * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 751 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF TENNESSEE RIDGE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF ERIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TENNESSEE RIDGE AT 800 PM CDT ERIN AT 805 PM CDT A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN STEWART COUNTY. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. $$ BOYD 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.