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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN

February 19, 1991Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 1991, 10:44 AM CST for Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 19, 1991, 10:44 AM CST (16:44 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 1991, 4:45 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1991-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1991-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -82 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 19, 7:18 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles, Marshall, Maury6 hr
Feb 19, 7:18 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford6 hr
Feb 19, 7:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXRutherford6 hr
Feb 19, 9:23 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis, Wayne6 hr
Feb 19, 1:41 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles, Marshall, Maury4 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.