Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 695
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 17, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT for 9 counties in North Carolina; 19 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2000, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Union County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 32 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 2685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 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.