Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 55, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 11:25 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports 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, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Davidson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:58 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | (Bna)Nashville Metro, TN | Trees blown down on Belmont and Caldwell Ave. |
| May 25, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | (Bna)Nashville Metro, TN | Trees blown down on Woodmont Blvd. and Granny White Pike and onto I-440. |
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 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
940 WFUS54 KOHX 250427 TORBNA TNC037-250515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1125 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAVIDSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NASHVILLE * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1123 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLE MEADE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES NORTH OF BELLE MEADE AT 1130 PM CDT 6 MILES NORTH OF FOREST HILLS AT 1135 PM CDT OVER DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE...5 MILES NORTH OF OAK HILL AT 1140 PM CDT 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 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, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 51 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, 11:37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.