Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1991, 1:14 AM CDT for Dickson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1991, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1991, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 270617 FFWBNA TNC043-270915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 114 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...DICKSON COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DICKSON COUNTY TENNESSEE. REPORTS FROM THE PUBLIC INDICATE FLOODING IN PARKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. IN ADDTION SOME CREEKS ARE OVER THE BANKS AND SOME EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN REQUIRED. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AU-TOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 26, 10:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
TNZ010-011-270445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1048 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1991 AT 1030 PM CDT...THE NASHVILLE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...MOST WITH HEAVY RAIN...OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM CLARKSVILLE TO ASHLAND CITY...SOUTH TO CENTERVILLE...HOHENWALD AND COLUMBIA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCLUDED IN WIDESPREAD RAIN OVER MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...ALONG PORTIONS OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...AND...OVER THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALABAMA. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT...AND... IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT THE WATCH WILL BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE COUNTIES IN THE WESTERN PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...NAMELY PERRY... HUMPHREYS...DICKSON AND HOUTON COUNTIES. ...SEVERAL PUBLIC REPORTS WITHINS THE LAST HOUR INDICATE HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING ALONG THE DUCK AND BUFFALO RIVERS IN PERRY AND HUMPHREYS COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 26, 10:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
TNZ010-011-270445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1048 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1991 AT 1030 PM CDT...THE NASHVILLE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...MOST WITH HEAVY RAIN...OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM CLARKSVILLE TO ASHLAND CITY...SOUTH TO CENTERVILLE...HOHENWALD AND COLUMBIA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCLUDED IN WIDESPREAD RAIN OVER MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...ALONG PORTIONS OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...AND...OVER THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALABAMA. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT...AND... IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT THE WATCH WILL BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE COUNTIES IN THE WESTERN PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...NAMELY PERRY... HUMPHREYS...DICKSON AND HOUSTON COUNTIES. ...SEVERAL PUBLIC REPORTS WITHIN[ THE LAST HOUR INDICATE HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING ALONG THE DUCK AND BUFFALO RIVERS IN PERRY AND HUMPHREYS COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 26, 11:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
TNZ009-010-011-270545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1141 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1991 AT 1130 PM CDT...THE NASHVILLE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...ALL WITH HEAVY RAIN...OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM CLARKSVILLE TO SPRINGFIELD ...SOUTH TO DICKSON...CENTERVILLE AND COLUMBIA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCLUDED IN A NEARLY SOLID AREA OF RAIN OVER MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...ALONG PORTIONS OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU IN TENNESSEE...ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...AND...OVER NORTHWEST ALABAMA. ...A FLASH WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM THE WEST BRANCH OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER/KENTUCKY LAKE REGION...TO THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY 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 27, 5:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 2 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.