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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 6:44 PM CDT for Macon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 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 24, 2000, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:44 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | New Zion, TN | Golf ball size hail reported. |
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 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
410 WFUS54 KOHX 242346 TORBNA TNC111-250030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 644 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MACON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 643 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF LAFAYETTE... MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE AT 655 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THURSDAY 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, 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, 6:54 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.