Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 324
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2000, 8:45 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2000, 8:45 AM CDT (13:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Mississippi 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, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Webster County, KY, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Scott County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander | 60 min |
| May 23, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 36 min |
| May 23, 9:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 52 min |
| May 23, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 36 min |
| May 23, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 60 min |
| May 23, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 30 min |
| May 23, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 57 min |
| May 23, 10:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 24 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Clinton, Harlan, Knox, McCreary, Wayne and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 52 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd | 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.