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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Nashville, TN

May 28, 1995Overton County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1995, 2:13 PM CDT for Overton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Overton County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 281916
FFWBNA
TNC133-282115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
213 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH F

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

Special weather statement, May 28, 11:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
TNZ005>011-022>033-055>065-075>082-093>098-290000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1130 AM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD THREATEN MAINLY THE WESTERN PART OF MIDDLE
TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.

A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO ADVANCE FROM NEAR CENTRAL ARKANSAS TO JUST
EAST OF THE NASHVILLE AREA BY SUNRISE TOMORROW MORNING.  THE AIR AHEAD
OF THIS FRONT IS VERY UNSTABLE MEANING THUNDERSTORMS PACKING DAMAGING
WINDS COULD DEVELOP QUITE RAPIDLY.

IF YOU ARE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THROUGH THIS EVENING...YOU ARE
URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE WEATHER AROUND YOU BY KEEPING A WATCHFUL
EYE AND LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR SOMEj OTHER RELIABLE WEATHER
SOURCE.  IN ADDITION...HAVING SOME TYPE OF SAFETY PLAN IN THE EVENT OF
A WARNING IS ALSO A GOOD IDEA.

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, 7:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXPickett2 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.