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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN

February 13, 2000Sumner County, Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 5:40 PM CST for Sumner County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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: Feb 13, 2000, 5:40 PM CST (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Sumner County, TN, Wilson 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
Feb 13, 3:45 PM CST	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 28 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 398 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 132344
TORBNA
TNC021-037-165-189-140015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
540 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  DAVIDSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NASHVILLE
  SOUTHWESTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHWESTERN WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 533 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF      
  ASHLAND CITY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER NASHVILLE AT 555 PM CST
  5 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLETTSVILLE AT 605 PM CST
  OVER HENDERSONVILLE AT 610 PM CST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST SBUNDAY EVENING FOR
TENNESSEE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 9:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	24 min
Feb 13, 9:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Williamson	30 min
Feb 13, 11:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys, Perry	25 min
Feb 13, 11:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur	25 min
Feb 13, 4:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Humphreys	24 min
Feb 13, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson	29 min
Feb 13, 5:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Williamson	26 min
Feb 13, 5:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	26 min
Feb 13, 5:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.