Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 27, 1994, 10:45 AM CST for Hickman County, Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 10:45 AM CST (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1994, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hickman County, TN, Maury County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 271646 FFWBNA TNC081-119-271945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1045 AM CST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...HICKMAN COUNTY...MAURY COUNTY AT 1045 AM CST RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN THAT CONTINUED TO FALL OVER MAURY AND HICKMAN COUNTIES. CIVIL DEFENCE PERSONNEL IN COLUMBIA REPORT ROADWAYS NEAR THE DUCK RIVER UNDER SEVERAL FEET OF WATER AND CENTERVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS THE DUCK RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL. ANY ADDITION RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL ADD TO FLOODING CONDITIONS IN THE AREA AS ALL ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL RUNOFF OF ALREADY SOAKED GROUND. 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. &
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, Mar 27, 5:55 AM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-271255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 553 AM CST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WILSON COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 545 AM CST WILSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANGEMENT REPORTED TOWN CREEK STILL OUT OF ITS BANKS IN PLACES ALONG SOUTH CUMBERLAND FROM 2 BLOCKS SOUTH OF THE SQUARE TO THE INTERSTATE...BUT THE WATERS HAD STARTED TO RECEDE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WILSON COUNTY UNTIL 6 AM CST. THE RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WEST HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE FOR THE TIME BEING BUT MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT AND THIS HAS PROMPTED THE ISSUANCE OF A FLASH FLOOD WATCH. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 545 AM CST SHOWED RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AND IN EAST TENNESSEE AND EXTREME NORTHEAST A LABAMA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 6:46 AM CST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-271345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 644 AM CST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 630 AM CST...RAIN WAS ONCE AGAIN DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI AND MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST TOWARD MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THIS NEW ROUND OF RAINS WILL FALL OVER ALREADY SOAKED GROUNDS AND WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS...CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE MID STATE AREA DURING THE DAY. RESIDENTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE NEED TO STAY ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF CREEKS AND STREAMS LEAVE THEIR BANKS. WILSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED CREEKS AND STREAMS STARTING TO RECEDE IN WILSON COUNTY FROM THE RAIN THAT FELL OVERNIGHT...BUT WITH MORE RAIN ON THE WAY WILSON COUNTY RESIDENTS ESPECIALLY NEED TO STAY ABREAST OF THE WEATHER SITUATION. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 7:40 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-271440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 738 AM CST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 730 AM CST...RAIN HAD ONCE AGAIN MOVED INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE WITH THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDING FROM CLARKSVILLE TO NASHVILLE TO CROSSVILLE ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. THIS NEW ROUND OF RAIN WILL FALL OVER ALREADY SOAKED GROUND AND RUNOFF WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING ON ROADWAYS...CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE MID AREA DURING THE DAY. RESIDENTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE NEED TO STAY ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF CREEKS AND STREAMS LEAVE THIER BANKS AND THREATEN LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 8:47 AM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-271545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 845 AM CST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 830 AM CST...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND NUMEROUS PATCHES OF RAIN WERE OVER WEST AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE...EXTENDING OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...NORTH ALABAMA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY RISING CREEKS AND STREAMS IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY. WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING...DO NOT DRIVE INTO PUDDLES OF WATER THAT ARE MORE THAN AN INCH DEEP. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF WATER IS NECESSARY TO CAUSE YOUR CAR TO LOSE TRACTION. IF YOU SEE RAPIDLY RISING WATER...GO TO HIGHER GROUND AND CALL THE POLICE OF SHERIFF.
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 10:43 AM CST, 2 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-271540- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1040 AM CST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MAURY AND HICKMAN COUNTIES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 1030 AM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND NUMEROUS PATCHES OF RAIN WERE OVER WEST AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE...EXTENDING OVER THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...NORTH ALABAMA...AND WEST AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE DUCK RIVER WAS NEAR OR ABOVE BANKFUL IN THE CITIES OF COLUMBIA AND CENTRERVILLE IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. IF YOU DRIVE TODAY...WATCH OUT FOR FLOODED ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY ON ROADS THAT RUN ALONGSIDE CREEKS OR STREAMS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND WHEN FLASH FLOODING OCCURS...AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Wilson | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 67 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.