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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 3:13 AM CDT for Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 min. 3 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 25, 2000, 3:13 AM CDT (08:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 3:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maury County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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 25, 3:20 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Williamsport, TN | Trees were down. The hardest hit area was the southern part of Greenfield Bend Rd. |
| May 25, 3:26 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Columbia, TN | Trees were down. The hardest hit area was at the intersection of Morel Road and Cross Bridges Road. |
| May 25, 3:35 AM CDT | Tornado F2 | Fountain Hgts, TN | The tornado started near Goose Creek Road and Old Highway 50. Many large trees...including well established oak trees...were uprooted. A garage was demolished near Fountain Heights. |
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, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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.
602 WFUS54 KOHX 250814 TORBNA TNC119-250845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 313 AM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBIA * UNTIL 355 AM CDT * AT 307 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA... OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CENTERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER COLUMBIA AT 325 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR TENNESSEE. $$ 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, 12:10 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, 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.