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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 6:18 PM CDT for Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 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 26, 2000, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stewart County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Dover, TN | Homes damaged at East Fork Leatherwood Road. |
| May 26, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Dover, TN | Homes were damaged on One tree was uprooted and fell on a house on Standing Rock Road. |
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 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
033 WFUS54 KOHX 262319 TORBNA TNC161-270000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 618 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOVER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DOVER AT 640 PM CDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE. $$ 14 JBW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 26, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 31 min |
| May 26, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 34 min |
| May 26, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 49 min |
| May 26, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 34 min |
| May 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 40 min |
| May 26, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys | 34 min |
| May 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 24 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.