Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Apr 21, 1997, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)

Expired

Apr 21, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lewis County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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.

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 212029
FFWBNA
TNC003-031-101-117-119-177-185-212230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
328 PM CDT MON APR 21 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...BEDFORD COUNTY...COFFEE COUNTY...LEWIS COUNTY
   ...MARSHALL COUNTY...MAURY COUNTY...WARREN COUNTY...WHITE COUNTY
 
A PERSISTEN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE LIKELY PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS
IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES IN THE WARNED AROUND SINCE 1 PM. THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 5 PM PRODUCING AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF
RAIN. PEOPLE WHO LIVE...WORK...OR DRIVE NEAR CREEKS AND STREAM SHOULD
MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY AND HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOOD
WATERS THREATEN. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CR"OSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Apr 21, 2:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
225 PM CDT MON APR 21 1997

AFOS ADAP/RUC SFC ANALYSES SHOW NGM A TAD TOO FAR N WITH MOVMT OF WK
SFC LO OVR W TN ATTM. LO FCST BY NGM TO MOV E ACRS NRN MID STA THIS AFTN
AND ALTHO IT MAY TRACK SLGTLY FARTHER TO THE S...THIS E MOVMT LUKS GUD
WHEN CONSIDERING UPR FLO IS W TO E WITH NXT S/W MOVG RMNG MSTLY OVR KY
LATE THIS AFTN AND ERY TNGT.

GREATEST THREAT OF SVR WX APRS TO BE OVR THE SRN 2/3RDS OF MID STA
THIS AFTN. OVR NW MIDDLE THINGS MORE STABLE AS COOLER AIR FILTERS IN
BHND THE WK SFC LOW.

ALL MDLS FCST DIGGING UPSTREAM S/WV MOVING INTO PACIFIC NW WL CAUSE
DNWSTREAM S/WV TO DIG AND HENCE STRENGTHEN AS IT MOVS ACRS THE TN AREA
ON WED. THIS LAST IN A SERIES OF S/WVS...MORE POTENT THAN THE REST...
WL PROBABLY CAUSE SVR WX TO OUR S...AS MOST OF MID STA SHUD REMAIN IN
MORE STBL AIR TO N OF SL LOW.

IN THE NEAR TERM...EXPECT PRECIP TO END ALL OF MID STA BFR MIDN AS CDFNT
ASSOCD WITH WK SFC LOW MOVS S ACRS THE AREA TNGT. MORE PRECIP EXPECTED
TMW AFTN AS OVERRUNNING OCCURS OVR TN N OF FNT.

BNA 052/066 055/059 10249

STEIGERWALDT

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
237 PM CDT MON APR 21 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0235 PM  ,  WAYNE                    TN    0.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/97   WAYNESBORO                     SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL.

END/ORCHANIAN

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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.