Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1991, 9:10 PM CDT for Hickman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1991, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1991, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hickman County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 376 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
TNZ006-007-008-009-010-011-260145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 741 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 1991 AT 730 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS...SEVERAL WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE BETWEEN DICKSON...HOHENWALD...LAWRENCEBURG AND LORETTO...AND... IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA FROM MUSCLE SHOALS TO ATHENS AND DECATUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN SMALL STREAM FLOODING...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES MAY BECOME COVERED WITH WATER. IF DRIVING...EXCERCISE CAUTION WHEN APPROACHING WATER COVERED STREETS. ALSO...NUMEROUS LARGE PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN WERE OVER THE WESTERN ONE-HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...ACROSS KENTUCKY FROM OWENSBORO TO CENTRAL CITY AND HOPKINSVILLE...AND...OVER NORTHWEST ALABAMA. THIS ACTIVITY EXTENDED INTO MUCH OF WEST TENNESSEE...AND...NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 25, 8:42 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
TNZ009-010-011-260245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 840 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 1991 AT 830 PM CDT...NASHVILLE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SEVERAL WITH HEAVY RAIN...OVER THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM JUST SOUTH OF DICKSON...NEAR LYLES...TO MOUNT PLEASANT...LAWRENCEBURG AND PULASKI...AND...IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA BETWEEN MUSCLE SHOALS AND HUNTSVILLE...NEAR ATHENS AND DECATUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN SMALL STREAM FLOODING. PUBLIC REPORTS DURING THE PAST HOUR INDICATED SMALL STREAM AND ROAD FLOODING IN LAWRENCE COUNTY. IF DRIVING...USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN APPROACHING WATER COVERED STREETS AND UNDERPASSES. ALSO...NUMEROUS LARGE PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN AND A FEW HEAVIER SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER MOST OF THE WESTERN HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY FROM JUST EAST OF OWENSBO3RO...TO BEAVER DAM AND HARTFORD...TO RUSSELLVILLE.. AND...OVER MUCH OF NORTH ALABAMA FROM MUSCLE SHOALS TO HUNTSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 4 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.