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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Nashville, TN

October 5, 1995Sumner County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1995, 5:27 AM CDT for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 5, 1995, 5:27 AM CDT (10:27 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 1995, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Sumner County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -88 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 051029
FFWBNA
TNC021-037-147-165-187-051230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
527 AM CDT THU OCT 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CHEATHAM COUNTY...DAVIDSON COUNTY...ROBERTSON COUNTY
   ...SUMNER COUNTY...WILLIAMSON COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE OPAL CONTINUED
ACROSS MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. AT 5:25 AM..WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A
BAND OF VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING EAST NORTHEAST THROUGH NORTHERN MIDDLE
TENNESSEE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1-2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH
8 AM CDT. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS AND
WATER OVER ROADWAYS WILL BE COMMON IN LOW LYING AREAS.
 
 
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 ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 4, 7:15 PM CDT, 10 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 7:15 PM CDT, 10 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
715 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995

AFT LUKG AT NMRS DIFFRNT THGS...THK THAT MEM DAY FCSTR HAS BST TREK
OF HUR.  FEEL H5 TROF DIGGG TO FAR W TO TURN OPAL IN SUCH A SHARP
NRLY FASHN.  ADDITIONLY...H2 WND FIELD VALID 12Z THU SHOWS JET-MAX
NR ANB-TRI LN (GNRLY).  WUD SEEM THAT HUR WUD FOLLOW JET-AXIS (OR
VRY CLOSE TO) SINCE BST ISOTHRML/ETC. SUPPRT EXISTS THERE.

ANYWAY...FFA MAY NEED TO BE EXTNDD FURTHR W.  TYPICALLY...BST
POTNTIAL FOR HEAVY RF AFT TRPCL SYSTM MAKES LANDFALL IS ON N-W SIDE.
ATTM...FFA PRBABLY FAR ENUF W.  BST CALL ON THAT LKLY WILL BE FM
MDNGT FCSTR.

CURRNT FCST HOWEVR LUKS LK WINNR ATTM W/ONLY PSBL CHG BEING "UPING
THE POPS IN MD-STATE ZNS W OF BNA (OLD ZNS 10/11) OTRW...LET IT RIDE!

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 5, 5:19 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

TNZ075-022-082-063-026-010-077-027-064-055-025-097-095-079-057-
023-024-031-094-058-096-009-098-061-060-006-076-033-056-011-032-
007-062-081-030-005-008-029-080-078-093-065-059-028-051415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
519 AM CDT THU OCT 5 1995

MOTORIST TRAVELING IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU
THIS MORNING ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION AS THE RAIN WILL CAUSE
SLICK ROADWAYS...WITH PONDING OF WATER AND IN A FEW AREAS FLASH
FLOODING. IN ADDITION THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE OPAL ARE BRINGING
HIGH WINDS TO MIDDLE TENNESSEE.  MOTORIST USING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES
ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING.

THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO END ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE BY EARLY AFTERNOON
WITH THE WINDS SUBSIDING AS THE REMNANTS OF OPAL MOVE AWAY FROM THE
AREA.

BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 4:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon	4 hr
Oct 5, 5:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Williamson	2 hr

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.