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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN

February 4, 19975 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 4, 1997, 12:11 AM CST for 5 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 3 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
Feb 4, 1997, 12:11 AM CST (06:11 UTC)
Expired
Feb 4, 1997, 3:15 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Benton County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 1997-02-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 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 00:00Z on 1997-02-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 040612
FFWBNA
TNC083-085-125-161-005-040915-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1211 AM CST TUE FEB 4 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...HOUSTON COUNTY...HUMPHREYS COUNTY...MONTGOMERY COUNTY
   ...STEWART COUNTY
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...BENTON COUNTY
 
AT 1210 AM CST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF
NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE. MOST LOCATIONS HAVE LIKELY RECEIVED CLOSE TO
1.5 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 9 PM WITH MOST OF THAT FALLING SINCE 1030 PM.
THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS THUS FLASH FLOODING
ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL LIKELY OCCUR.
 
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 IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 4, 3:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Montgomery3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.