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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Nashville, TN

June 17, 1997Hickman County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 1997, 6:08 AM CDT for Hickman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 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
Jun 17, 1997, 6:08 AM CDT (11:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1997, 9:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Hickman County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:11 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1997-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1929 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1997-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1929 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
6.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 171110
FFWBNA
TNC081-171415-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
608 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
 
   ...HICKMAN COUNTY
 
AT 600 AM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS
BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES ACROSS HICKMAN COUNTY SINCE 4 AM CDT. THIS
LARGE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL OVER A RELATIVE SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WILL
BRING CREEKS AND STREAMS OUT OF THERE BANKS QUICKLY ACROSS HICKMAN
COUNTY. SOME OF THE HEAVIER RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED FROM CENTERVILLE
TO COBLE.
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES MORE RAINFALL WILL ANOTHER...POSSIBLY
ANOTHER INCH BEFORE LETTING UP LATER THIS MORNING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VE4HICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
BOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 5:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson64 min
Jun 17, 5:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson, Hickman57 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.