Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 381
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2000, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 83 counties
Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Cherokee County, NC, Graham 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, Cocke County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion 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, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Wise County, VA, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton, Putnam | 43 min |
| May 27, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 43 min |
| May 27, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton | 35 min |
| May 27, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 49 min |
| May 27, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 40 min |
| May 27, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 43 min |
| May 27, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 58 min |
| May 27, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 52 min |
| May 27, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 61 min |
| May 27, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Roane | 40 min |
| May 27, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 40 min |
| May 27, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 36 min |
| May 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox | 65 min |
| May 27, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs | 31 min |
| May 27, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 60 min |
| May 27, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Knox, Union | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 32 min |
| May 27, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Jefferson | 44 min |
| May 27, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 44 min |
| May 27, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock, Hawkins | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Hamblen | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee, Scott | 35 min |
| May 27, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene | 41 min |
| May 27, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 26 min |
| May 27, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley | 34 min |
| May 27, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 36 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Clay, Clinton and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Henderson, Union, Webster | 6 hr |
| May 27, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Casey and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 37 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.