Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 211
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 27, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Union County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau, Perry | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Union | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 32 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calloway, Christian, Graves, Logan, Lyon, Marshall and 4 more | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.