Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 369
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kentucky; Cherokee County, North Carolina; 45 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Cherokee County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury, Williamson | 40 min |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 30 min |
| May 26, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 31 min |
| May 26, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 26 min |
| May 26, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 65 min |
| May 26, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 30 min |
| May 26, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 37 min |
| May 26, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 29 min |
| May 26, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, White | 39 min |
| May 26, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe | 36 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 984 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
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 27, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Henderson, Union, Webster | 6 hr |
| May 27, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Casey and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 37 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.