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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 8:47 PM CDT for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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.
374 WFUS54 KOHX 240149 TORBNA TNC165-240230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 847 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GALLATIN...MILLERSVILLE...WHITE HOUSE * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 840 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF GALLATIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GALLATIN AT 905 PM CDT A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN ROBERTSON COUNTY NEAR SPRINGFIELD. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR 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, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 43 min |
| 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.