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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Nashville, TN

May 27, 2000Jackson County, Overton County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 5:10 PM CDT for Jackson County, Overton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, TN, Overton County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Livingston, TN	Newspaper article related trees and power lines were down in Livingston area.

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
May 27, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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

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The text

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

543 
WFUS54 KOHX 272211
TORBNA
TNC087-133-272245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GAINESBORO
  OVERTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LIVINGSTON 

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER GAINESBORO...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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.
$$
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, 3:20 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, 5:19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.