Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Sep 27, 1996, 5:41 AM CDT (10:41 UTC)

Expired

Sep 27, 1996, 7:45 AM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Sumner County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:42 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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TTAA00 KBNA 271046
FFWBNA
TNC165-271245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
541 AM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...SUMNER COUNTY
 
AT 540 AM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS SUMNER COUNTY.
 
BETWEEN 435 AND 535 AM...RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES
OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN SUMNER COUNTY...WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL
LIKELY EARLY THIS MORNING.
 
FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED
AS WELL AS PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDON\ED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
STEIGERWALDT

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 27, 2:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
225 AM CDT FRI SEP 27 1996

WHAT A WAY TO COMMENCE A STRING OF MIDS! PREFER NGM MDL SOLN AS IT
APPRS TO HAVE BEST HANDL ON FRNTL MOVEMENT ATTM. STG S/W COUPLED WITH
MSTR-RICH AMS WL CAUSE PDS OF RAIN AND TSTMS ACRS MID TN AND PLATEAU
NEXT 24-30 HRS. DUE TO UNIDIRECTIONAL PROFILE AND SLOW EWD MOVEMENT OF
SFC FNT...COULD EASILY GET TRAING OF TSTMS FOR SVRL HRS. THUS FEEL THAT
A FFA IS NOT OUT-OF-THE-QUESTION FOR WRN MID TN TDY AND FOR ALL OF MID
TN TNGT.

TEMPS CURRENTLY ARE CLOSE TO FWC VALUES AND APPR TO BE ON TRACK FOR TDY.
WITH CFP XPTD IN BNA VCNTY BFR 12Z SAT...BLV AVN MOS MAY HAVE THE RIGHT
IDEA WITH TEMPS IN THE 50S. TEMP ATL LIT HAS DROPPED 8-10 DEGS SINCE FROPA
AT 05Z. WL ALSO LEAN TWD COOLER AVN MOS FOR HIGH TEMPS SAT AS SKIES MAY
NOT CLR UNTIL CLOSE TO SS. NOT MUCH TIME TO VIEW OTHER PROGGS.
09

BNA 80/56/65 9+3

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.