Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 1989, 4:14 PM CST for Coffee County, Franklin County, Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1989, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1989, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coffee County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Warren County, TN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBNA 052216
FFWBNA
TNC031-051-177-060115-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
414 PM CST SUN MAR 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
...EASTERN COFFEE...FRANKLIN...WARREN
WATER IS REPORTED TO BE OVER ROADS IN WARREN COUNTY. RISING
WATER IS ALSO REPORTED IN FRANKLIN COUNTY. RADAR SHOWS THUNDERSTORMS
WITH HEAVY RAINS FROM WINCHESTER THROUGH MCMINNVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 50 MPH. RADAR ALSO SHOWS MORE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARDS THE
AREA FROM NORTHERN ALABAMA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF AN INCH OR
MORE IS POSSIBLE THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 10 PM CST.The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 45 min |
| Mar 5, 12:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 12:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 1:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 58 min |
| Mar 5, 7:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 7:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Wilson | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.