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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Nashville, TN

June 8, 1996Benton County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1996, 9:08 PM CDT for Benton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1996, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1996, 1:10 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Benton County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 8, 8:25 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 8:25 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
820 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 1996

HAVE ENJOYED A TEMPORARY LULL IN THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING IN THE
MID-STATE AREA. HOWEVER, AS MENTIONED IN PREV AFD, WILL HAVE TO CLOSELY
MONITOR TSTM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SUNDAY AS A NUMBER OF COUNTIES IN OUR
FA NOW HAVE VERY LOW FF GUIDANCE (ESPECIALLY NWRN COUNTIES).

AGREE WITH MEM'S IDEA OF PSBLY LOWERING POPS A LTL, ESPECIALLY SINCE
TSTMS JW OF TN RIVER ARE CREEPING EVER-SO-SLOWLY EWD. HOWEVER, WILL
HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON SHOWERS AND TSTMS ADVANCING ALONG OUR SRN
FLANK OUT OF ALABAMA, AND BE PREPARED FOR A PSBL INCRS IN PRECIP
POTENTIAL TOWARD MORNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 2:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford26 min
Jun 9, 3:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson42 min
Jun 9, 4:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXTrousdale30 min
Jun 9, 4:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon50 min
Jun 9, 8:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton2 hr
Jun 9, 11:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Trousdale29 min
Jun 9, 11:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart32 min
Jun 9, 12:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery, Robertson29 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.