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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN

May 18, 1995Cheatham County, Williamson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 9:58 AM CDT for Cheatham County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 9:58 AM CDT (14:58 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 36 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 4.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 181459
FFWBNA
TNC021-037-147-165-187-181800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
958 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CHEATHAM COUNTY...DAVIDSON COUNTY...ROBERTSON COUNTY
   ...SUMNER COUNTY...WILLIAMSON COUNTY
 
AT 950 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SLOW-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAINS NEAR THE TENNESSEE RIVER IN WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE
MORNING HOURS...AND THIS RAINFALL WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE WARNING AREA
LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE RjOADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	65 min
May 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	4 hr
May 18, 9:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Montgomery	4 hr
May 18, 9:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Robertson, Sumner	3 hr
May 18, 10:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	3 hr
May 18, 11:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	37 min
May 18, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	28 min
May 18, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	65 min
May 18, 12:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	13 min
May 18, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	62 min
May 18, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	60 min
May 18, 12:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	32 min
May 18, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Trousdale	43 min
May 18, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon	33 min
May 18, 1:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith	21 min
May 18, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	57 min
May 18, 1:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay	39 min
May 18, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Montgomery	42 min
May 18, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis	63 min
May 18, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	43 min
May 18, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	52 min
May 18, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	51 min
May 18, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	32 min
May 18, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall, Williamson	42 min
May 18, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	31 min
May 18, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis	50 min
May 18, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	49 min
May 18, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	64 min
May 18, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	64 min
May 18, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	68 min
May 18, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon	45 min
May 18, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Marshall	47 min
May 18, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Warren	40 min
May 18, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	48 min
May 18, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lincoln	64 min
May 18, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham	45 min
May 18, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	White	42 min
May 18, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	41 min
May 18, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford	49 min
May 18, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	61 min
May 18, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis	49 min
May 18, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	60 min
May 18, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee	53 min
May 18, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	51 min
May 18, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Williamson	54 min
May 18, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren	52 min
May 18, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	45 min
May 18, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	54 min
May 18, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	67 min
May 18, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Maury	62 min

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.