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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN

September 3, 1992Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 1992, 7:04 AM CDT for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 3, 1992, 7:04 AM CDT (12:04 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 1992, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 1992-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 58 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 1992-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 031204
FFWBNA
TNC181-031300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
704 AM CDT THU SEP 3 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 700 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW HEAVY
RAIN FALLING IN WAYNE COUNTY. A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
HAD SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT DURING THE LAST HALF HOUR WHICH WILL
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN WAYNE COUNTY.
 
DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
 
IF YOU LIVE NEAR CREEKS OR STREAMS PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEK:S DURING THREATENING RAINS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 6:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis, Wayne68 min

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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.