Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 1997, 10:24 AM CST for Stewart 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 10:24 AM CST (16:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stewart County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 011625 FFWBNA TNC161-011930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1024 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...STEWART COUNTY AT 1023 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS STEWART COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL ACROSS THE AREA INDICATE THAT BETWEEN 9 AND 10 AM...OVER AN INCH OF RAIN FELL OVER PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH EARLIER HEAVY RAINS WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. YOU SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. TT >
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 38 min |
| Mar 1, 12:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 1:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 1:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 2:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 2:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 41 min |
| Mar 1, 2:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 52 min |
| Mar 1, 2:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 2:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 3:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 56 min |
| Mar 1, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 3:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Decatur | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 3:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 61 min |
| Mar 1, 4:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 61 min |
| Mar 1, 4:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 42 min |
| Mar 1, 4:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Decatur | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 6:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Robertson, Sumner | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 6:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 7:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 7:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 43 min |
| Mar 1, 7:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 8:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Williamson | 40 min |
| Mar 1, 1:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Stewart | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 3 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.