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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Nashville, TN

May 24, 2000Macon County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 8:54 PM CDT for Macon 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 24, 2000, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Macon County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 00:00Z, 1.9 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.

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: 3627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

242 
WFUS54 KOHX 250155
TORBNA
TNC111-250245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
854 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 849 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL
  MACON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE IT OR
HEAR IT GO TO A SAFE PLACE AND TAKE COVER NOW

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR
HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

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 24, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	52 min
May 24, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	54 min
May 24, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	57 min
May 24, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	59 min
May 24, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson	38 min
May 24, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	54 min
May 24, 10:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	3 hr
May 24, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	49 min
May 24, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	50 min
May 24, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	53 min
May 24, 11:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	87 min
May 25, 12:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	35 min
May 25, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	42 min
May 25, 12:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford	38 min
May 25, 1:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	35 min
May 25, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith	38 min
May 25, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford, Williamson	35 min
May 25, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam, White	39 min
May 25, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	35 min
May 25, 2:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson	4 hr
May 25, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	35 min
May 25, 2:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Humphreys	39 min
May 25, 2:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman	28 min
May 25, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	34 min
May 25, 3:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	42 min
May 25, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.