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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Nashville, TN

May 27, 2000Robertson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 3:20 PM CDT for Robertson 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 27, 2000, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Robertson County, TN

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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 50 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

779 
WFUS54 KOHX 272021
TORBNA
TNC147-272100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
320 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 320 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST  
  OF CLARKSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SPRINGFIELD AT 345 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 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, 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, 3:30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.