Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jul 21, 1996, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)

Expired

Jul 22, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Davidson County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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TNC037-165-189-220615-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1009 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...DAVIDSON COUNTY...SUMNER COUNTY...WILSON COUNTY
 
AT 10 PM CDT..RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY
HEAVY RAIN OVER SUMNER..DAVIDSON..AND WEST WILSON COUNTIES. WEATHER
RADAR ESTIMATED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF
THESE COUNTIES EARLIER THIS EVENING. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS..CONTINUED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING
IN LOW LYING AREAS.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY RIN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 21, 8:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
802 PM SUN JUL 21 1996

TSTMS LATE AFTN AND EVE RESULTED FM GUD INSTABILITY...ALG WITH UPR LVL
DIV/LO LVL CONV...A 500 MB S/WV MOVG ESE ACRS OH VLY...AND HI 850 MB
DEW PTS IN PARTICULAR. BOW ECHOES WERE THE CAUSE OF DAMAGE IN THE
NASHVILLE AREA.

EXPECT LESS ACTIVITY LTR TNGT AS HEATG AND UPR LVL S/WV BGNS MOVG TO E
OF AREA. BUT APCH OF SFC TROF FM W/NW...WITH LO LVL CYC FLO AND CONTD
THETA RDG AXIS AT BOTH 1000 AND 850 MB LVLS ACRS AREA OVRNGT WL BE ENUF
TO CONT CHC OF TSTMS ALL NGT.
STEIGERWALDT

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.