Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Mar 5, 1997, 9:25 AM CST (15:25 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1997, 1:30 PM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Macon County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:24 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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TNC021-037-043-083-085-111-125-147-161-165-169-189-005-051930-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
925 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...CHEATHAM COUNTY...DAVIDSON COUNTY...DICKSON COUNTY
   ...HOUSTON COUNTY...HUMPHREYS COUNTY...MACON COUNTY
   ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY...ROBERTSON COUNTY...STEWART COUNTY
   ...SUMNER COUNTY...TROUSDALE COUNTY...WILSON COUNTY
 
IN WEST TENNESSEE
 
   ...BENTON COUNTY
 
AN AREA OF RAIN...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA
INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN
OVER MUCH OF THE AREA...AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH IS
EXPECTED BETWEEN NOW AND 1 PM CST.
 
THE GROUND IS SATURATED...AND ALL ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL EITHER AGGRAVATE
FLOODING PROBLEMS THAT ALREADY EXIST...OR CREATE ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOOD
THREATS.
 
 
 
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...DIPPS...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.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 5, 9:19 AM CST, 6 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
917 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997

SHWRS/TSTMS CONTD MOVG NE ACRS THE MID STATE. RUC SFC ANALYSIS AT 14Z
SHOWED A SFC WAVE ON THE CDFNT OVR SW TN IN AREA OF STG MSTR CONV AND
THETA-E ADVCTN.

ALSO...DWPTS IN THE 60S WERE ADVTG NWD INTO THE MID STA. STLT PICS
SHOWED CLD TOPS COOLG OVR SW TN AND SML SCALE S/WVS CONTG TO MOV
ENE INTO THE AREA ENHANCING THE RAINFALL.

POTENTIAL FOR HVY RAIN TO THEREFORE CONT ESPECIALLY IN SRN SECS OF
THE MID STA INTO ERY AFTN.
STEIGERWALDT

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

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.