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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Nashville, TN

June 18, 1995Warren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1995, 4:44 PM CDT for Warren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1995, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1995, 5:37 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1995-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 158 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 1995-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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 182146
FFWBNA
TNC177-182345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
444 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY
 
AT 440 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING
THUNDERSTORM NEARLY STATIONARY OVER ROCK ISLAND IN NORTHEAST WARREN
COUNTY.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES HAVE FALLEN DURING THE
LAST 45 MINUTES IN THIS AREA.
 
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.
 
 
BOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren, White64 min
Jun 18, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWarren55 min
Jun 18, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln67 min
Jun 18, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Marshall57 min
Jun 18, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart65 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.