Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 326
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT for 7 counties in Kentucky; 21 counties in Tennessee; Lee County, Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Bell County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knox County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, White County, TN, Lee County, VA
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 49 min |
| May 23, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 39 min |
| May 23, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Pickett | 40 min |
| May 23, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 52 min |
| May 23, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 55 min |
| May 23, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 36 min |
| May 23, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 39 min |
| May 23, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell | 59 min |
| May 23, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox | 54 min |
| May 23, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 63 min |
| May 23, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Knox | 42 min |
| May 23, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 54 min |
| May 23, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 40 min |
| May 23, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 44 min |
| May 23, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Scott | 24 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, 9:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 11:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 52 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000
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.