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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 14

January 4, 200029 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 4, 2000, 12:00 AM EST for 29 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 4, 2000, 12:00 AM EST (05:00 UTC)
Expired
Jan 4, 2000, 4:00 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties

Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 12:33 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland42 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 517 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
517 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
723 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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.