Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Mar 5, 1997, 10:33 AM CST (16:33 UTC)

Expired

Mar 5, 1997, 2:30 PM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lewis County, TN, Maury County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KBNA 051635
FFWBNA
TNC101-119-052030-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1033 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...LEWIS COUNTY...MAURY COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAINS...WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA BETWEEN
NOW AND NOON...AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF AROUND AN
INCH AN HOUR. FOLLOWING THE THUNDERSTORMS...MODERATE RAIN WILL PROBABLY
CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON AS WELL. THESE RAINS...WHICH WILL FALL
ON ALREADY-SATURATED GROUND...WILL PRODUCE THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLASH
FLOODING.
 
IF YOU LIVE NEAR CREEKS OR STREAMS...YOU SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RISING
WATERS AND HAVE A SAFETY PLAN THAT YOU CAN IMPLEMENT QUICKLY.
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEAT`HS 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.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 5, 9:19 AM CST, 1 hour 14 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.