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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 5:39 PM CST for Benton County, Houston County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 min. 2 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
- Feb 18, 2000, 5:39 PM CST (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, TN, Houston County, TN, Stewart County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 5:50 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, TN | A few trees were blown down around the county. |
| Feb 18, 6:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, TN | Several small trees were blown down around the county along with a few power outages. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 541 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 683 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOHX 182340 TORBNA TNC005-083-161-190030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 539 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BENTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE NORTHWESTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE SOUTHERN STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 540 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOVER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF PARIS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DOVER AT 555 PM CST TENNESSEE RIDGE AT 600 PM CST CUMBERLAND CITY AT 610 PM CST $$ 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 36 min |
| Feb 17, 7:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 41 min |
| Feb 18, 12:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 41 min |
| Feb 18, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson | 32 min |
| Feb 18, 5:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 33 min |
| Feb 18, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 37 min |
| Feb 18, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 37 min |
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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.