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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 1997, 8:02 AM CST for Decatur County, Hickman County, Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 5 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 5, 1997, 8:02 AM CST (14:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Perry County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 051407 FFWBNA TNC081-135-149-187-039-051900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 802 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...HICKMAN COUNTY...PERRY COUNTY...RUTHERFORD COUNTY ...WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN WEST TENNESSEE ...DECATUR COUNTY AT 800 AM CST...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS GRADUALLY SINKING SOUTHWARD. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SINCE 5 AM CST THAT BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE ABOVE COUNTIES. BECAUSE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINS...THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE FLOODING ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH 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 GROUdND. STEIGERWALDT
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 Mar 5, 2:57 AM CST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 2:57 AM CST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION ...UPDATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 245 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997 HAVING HAD TIME TO ASSESS RAINFALL POTENTIAL BELIEVE WE NEED TO ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATBCH FOR MID STATE FOR TODAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD REACH ONE INCH ACROSS PARTS OF MID STATE BETWEEN DAYBREAK AND THIS EVENING. BOYD 01
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 3:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Stewart | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 3:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Decatur | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Decatur | 67 min |
| Mar 5, 4:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 68 min |
| Mar 5, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Robertson | 59 min |
| Mar 5, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 59 min |
| Mar 5, 5:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 66 min |
| Mar 5, 5:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 59 min |
| Mar 5, 6:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 6:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Macon, Trousdale | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 6:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 6:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 7:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Williamson | 57 min |
| Mar 5, 7:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 7:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 8:02 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 8:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton, Putnam | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Putnam, White | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Smith | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lewis, Maury | 4 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.