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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Nashville, TN

December 16, 2000Giles County, Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 12:42 PM CST for Giles County, Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 48 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: Dec 16, 2000, 12:42 PM CST (18:42 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Giles County, TN, Lincoln County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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
Dec 16, 1:08 PM CST	Tornado F1	Cash Pt, TN	NWS Storm Survey indicated touchdown of the tornado was near Cash Point where a small mobile home was extensively damaged. The roof of the mobile home was peeled off. Other roof damage was observed within 1/4 of a mile from the mobile home. A few trees were

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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 445 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 500 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 161846
TORBNA

TNC055-103-161930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1242 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE

* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1242 PM CST... A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN LIMESTONE 
COUNTY IN NORTHERN ALABAMA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS TORNADO
WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 65 NEAR ARDMORE BY 100 PM. THIS TORNADO WILL
ALSO PASS NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF CASH POINT...DELLROSE...AND 
ELKTON.   

* THE TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMEDx!! TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!
$$
JBW
LAT...LON 3486 8724 3473 8708 3502 8668 3520 8651
          3519 8689

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 15, 9:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford	3 hr
Dec 16, 12:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Macon, Maury, Rutherford and 4 more	3 hr
Dec 16, 1:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall	2 hr
Dec 16, 1:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Overton, Smith	105 min
Dec 16, 2:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb	105 min
Dec 16, 2:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Grundy, Warren	93 min
Dec 16, 3:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Putnam, White	2 hr
Dec 16, 3:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marshall and 6 more	105 min
Dec 16, 3:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Moore, Warren	85 min
Dec 16, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Grundy	37 min
Dec 16, 4:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress and 11 more	3 hr
Dec 16, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	45 min
Dec 16, 5:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	40 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.