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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 2:48 PM CDT for Houston County, Montgomery County, Stewart 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 27, 2000, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Houston County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:02 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Cumberland City, TN | Spotter reported numerous trees and power lines down. About 50 trees were estimated to be down in the Cumberland City area. A few trees were on a home. A trailer was blown off its foundation. |
| May 27, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Clarksville, TN | General public reported a tornado and trees down around Mimi Road. |
| May 27, 3:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Hilltop, TN | Spotter reported trees down near Hilltop and Palmyra. |
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 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 271948 TORBNA TNC083-125-161-272030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 248 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HOUSTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ERIN WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF DOVER... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NORTH OF CUMBERLAND CITY BY 315 PM CDT A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES AND SEEK SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AWOID WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SATURDAY 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, 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, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 40 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, 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.