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Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Nashville, TN

June 28, 1997Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1997, 11:27 PM CDT for Giles 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 28, 1997, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Giles County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 1997-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 809 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
809 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 290428
FFWBNA
TNC055-290700-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1127 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

   ...GILES
 
THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...WILL CONTINUE TO
MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF GILES COUNTY OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS
AND WILL PRODUCE THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLASH FLOODING. FLOODING...
FROM SIMILAR AMOUNTS OF RAIN...HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED TONIGHT
FROM NEARBY LAWRENCE COUTNY. STORM TOTALS BETWEEN 1 1/2 INCH AND
2 INCHES ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE OCCURRED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN
GILES COUNTY OVER THE LAST HOUR AND A HALF.


BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.
MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECTz TO
FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence2 hr
Jun 28, 10:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWayne3 hr
Jun 28, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWayne34 min
Jun 28, 11:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence3 hr
Jun 29, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford60 min
Jun 29, 6:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWhite4 hr
Jun 29, 6:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne4 hr

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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.