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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Nashville, TN

May 28, 1995Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1995, 7:54 AM CDT for Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 7:54 AM CDT (12:54 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Pickett County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 311 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 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 281257
FFWTYS
TNC137-281500-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE
ISSUED BY NASHVILLE TN
854 AM EDT (754 AM CDT) SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EDT (1000 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...PICKETT COUNTY
 
AT 850 AM CDT A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO MERGE OVER
PICKETT COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORM MERGERS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN
RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. DUE TO THE
PAST HEAVY RAINFALL...FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL
LIKELY OCCUR.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Overton, Putnam, White115 min
May 28, 2:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXOverton2 hr

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.