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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Nashville, TN
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Putnam, White | 115 min |
| May 28, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Pickett | 2 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.