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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Nashville, TN

May 25, 2000Davidson County, Wilson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 12:10 AM CDT for Davidson 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: May 25, 2000, 12:10 AM CDT (05:10 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Davidson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 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, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 7 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.

543 
WFUS54 KOHX 250514
TORBNA
TNC037-189-250545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1210 AM CDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DAVIDSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NASHVILLE
  SOUTHERN WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT

* AT 1205 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HERMITAGE AND DONNELSON TIL 1235 AM CDT
  SOUTH MT. JULIET AND GLADEVILLE TIL 1245 AM CDT
 
IF YOU LIVE IN DAVIDSON OR WILSON COUNTIES FIND A SECURE SHELTER 
IMMEDIATELY.
$$
JDG

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, 11:25 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, 12:18 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

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.