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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Nashville, TN

May 18, 1995Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 7:23 PM CDT for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Davidson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 17 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: 1185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 460 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.0
Supercell composite: 17.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 190024
FFWBNA
TNC037-190330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
723 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...DAVIDSON COUNTY
 
REPEATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SATURATED GROUND HAS CAUSED SMALL
STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RUN HIGH AND SHOULD OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
 
END/ORCHANIAN/N.W.S.

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

Local storm report, May 18, 1:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
200 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....  STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1158 AM    DICKSON COUNTY           TN    TREE FELL ON HOUSE AT WHITE
05/18/95                                  BLUFF.

1225 PM    DAVIDSON COUNTY          TN    EMA REPORTED TREES...TELEPHONE
05/18/95                                  POLES AND WIRES DOWN.

1227 PM    DAVIDSON COUNTY          TN    METRO EOC REPORTED FUNNEL
05/18/95                                  CLOUD/TORNADO AT MADISON.
                                          WIND GUST TO 65 MPH REPORTED
                                          BY STORM SPOTTER IN THE CITY
                                          OF NASHVILLE.

1230-1245 PM  DAVIDSON COUNTY       TN    DAMAGE AT RIVERGATE MALL:
05/18/95                                  SEARS LOST ROOF. ROOF CAVED
                                          IN AT 84 LUMBER. BACK WALL
                                          OF TARGET DEPT STORE
                                          DEMOLISHED. CARS AND A CAMPER
                                          OVERTURNED. STOP SIGN DRIVEN
                                          INTO THE BACK OF A JEEP
                                          CHEROKEE BY HIGH WIND.
                                          CONSTRUCTION SCAFFOLDING
                                          BLOWN DOWN AT CASTNER KNOTT.
                                          SHEET METAL WRAPPED AROUND
                                          HIGH TENSION POWER LINES
                                          AND ASSOCIATED TOWERS.
                                          THESE REPORTS RECEIVED
                                          BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE...HAM
                                          OPERATORS AND PUBLIC.

1252  PM        HENDERSONVILLE     TN     POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTEDLY
05/18/95        SUMNER COUNTY             CAUSED DAMAGE...INCLUDING
                                          BENT HIGH TENSION TOWERS
                                          AND DOWNED TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES.

APPR. 1 PM CDT   WESTMORELAND       TN    DAMAGE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL...
05/18/95                                  ALONG WITH INJURIES.

APPR 1225 PM CDT   MOUNT JULIET  TN       POSSIBLE TORNADO. LARGE
05/18/95           WILSON COUNTY          TREE FNELL ON HOUSE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	68 min
May 18, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	63 min
May 18, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton	57 min
May 18, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith	57 min
May 18, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith	67 min
May 18, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	43 min
May 18, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	54 min
May 18, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	54 min
May 18, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	50 min
May 18, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Warren	52 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1995 Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.