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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Nashville, TN

March 2, 1997Bedford County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 10:18 AM CST for Bedford County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 8 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: Mar 2, 1997, 10:18 AM CST (16:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 1997, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bedford County, TN, Moore County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 021621
FFWBNA
TNC003-055-099-101-103-117-119-127-149-181-189-030000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1018 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 6OO PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...BEDFORD COUNTY...GILES COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY
   ...LEWIS COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY...MARSHALL COUNTY...MAURY COUNTY
   ...MOORE COUNTY...RUTHERFORD COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY...WILSON COUNTY
 
AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY
FRONT...EXTENDING SOUTHWEST ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTHEAST ALONG THE
FRONT...PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE AREA. DUE TO THIS ADDITIONAL
RAIN FALLING ON SATURATED GROUND...FLOODING WILL OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ON
SECONDARY ROADS...AND SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.
 
IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...AND
CREEKS...WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS DURING FLOODING.
 
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
TT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 8:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	3 hr
Mar 1, 8:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	52 min
Mar 1, 9:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Montgomery	3 hr
Mar 1, 9:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	35 min
Mar 1, 9:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	33 min
Mar 1, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	45 min
Mar 1, 9:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Robertson	51 min
Mar 1, 10:09 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Robertson	4 hr
Mar 1, 10:09 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Humphreys	4 hr
Mar 1, 10:09 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Sumner	4 hr
Mar 1, 10:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Decatur	46 min
Mar 1, 10:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner	67 min
Mar 1, 10:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	53 min
Mar 1, 11:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Decatur	41 min
Mar 1, 11:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	32 min
Mar 1, 11:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys, Perry	51 min
Mar 1, 11:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	6 hr
Mar 1, 11:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman	43 min
Mar 1, 11:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Sumner	6 hr
Mar 1, 11:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Montgomery	6 hr
Mar 2, 12:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	48 min
Mar 2, 12:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	6 hr
Mar 2, 2:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Decatur	4 hr
Mar 2, 2:09 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart	6 hr
Mar 2, 2:09 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Robertson	6 hr
Mar 2, 3:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton	6 hr
Mar 2, 10:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 1 more	8 hr
Mar 2, 10:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Macon, Robertson, Sumner	8 hr
Mar 2, 10:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Decatur, Perry	8 hr
Mar 2, 10:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Stewart	8 hr
Mar 2, 10:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne	8 hr
Mar 2, 10:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury	8 hr
Mar 2, 10:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	8 hr
Mar 2, 5:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	12 hr
Mar 2, 5:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne	12 hr
Mar 2, 5:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore	12 hr
Mar 2, 5:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart	12 hr
Mar 2, 5:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Macon, Sumner	12 hr
Mar 2, 5:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman, Williamson	12 hr
Mar 2, 5:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Humphreys, Perry	12 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.