Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:15 PM CST for Macon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 30 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 6:15 PM CST (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 523 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 558 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 140017 TORBNA TNC111-165-169-189-140045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 615 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE SOUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GALLATIN TROUSDALE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HARTSVILLE NORTHWESTERN WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 645 PM CST * AT 608 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR HENDERSONVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GALLATIN AT 625 PM CST NEAR HARTSVILLE AT 645 PM CST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR TENNESSEE . $$ JLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 6:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Sumner | 4 hr |
| Feb 13, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 26 min |
| Feb 13, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 26 min |
| Feb 13, 8:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 8:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Macon | 2 hr |
| Feb 13, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 36 min |
| Feb 13, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 44 min |
| Feb 13, 9:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren, White | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 37 min |
| Feb 13, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 35 min |
| Feb 14, 12:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 29 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.