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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Nashville, TN

August 8, 1995Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1995, 2:07 PM CDT for Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 1995, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1995-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1827 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 1995-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 081909
FFWBNA
TNC055-099-117-181-082215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
207 PM CDT TUE AUG 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...GILES COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY...MARSHALL COUNTY
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 205 PM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE WARNED COUNTIES.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
 
 
BOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 10:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart63 min
Aug 8, 11:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton56 min
Aug 8, 11:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHouston, Montgomery66 min
Aug 8, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Humphreys63 min
Aug 8, 12:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDecatur63 min
Aug 8, 12:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWilliamson3 hr
Aug 8, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson68 min
Aug 8, 1:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXMaury3 hr
Aug 8, 1:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXDavidson, Wilson3 hr
Aug 8, 2:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence, Wayne3 hr

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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.