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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Nashville, TN

May 26, 2000Robertson County, Sumner County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 7:35 PM CDT for Robertson County, Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 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 26, 2000, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Robertson County, TN, Sumner County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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 26, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 41 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: 984 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 10.1

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The text

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

465 
WFUS54 KOHX 270037
TORBNA
TNC147-165-270115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
735 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GALLATIN

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO FORMING 10 MILES WEST OF CROSS       
  PLAINS...OR ABOUT OVER SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CROSS PLAINS AT 740 PM CDT
  4 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORTLAND AT 755 PM CDT

TAKE COVER NOW
$$
END/ORCHANIAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	35 min
May 26, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson	44 min
May 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury, Williamson	40 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	30 min
May 26, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	31 min
May 26, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	26 min
May 26, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	65 min
May 26, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	30 min
May 26, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	37 min
May 26, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren	29 min
May 26, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, White	39 min
May 27, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart	42 min
May 27, 2:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Houston, Montgomery, Stewart	42 min
May 27, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	45 min
May 27, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	40 min
May 27, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	40 min
May 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham	15 min
May 27, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	37 min
May 27, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	35 min
May 27, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale, Wilson	41 min
May 27, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	33 min
May 27, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	43 min
May 27, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton, Putnam	43 min
May 27, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	43 min
May 27, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Jackson, Overton	35 min
May 27, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	41 min
May 27, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	43 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.