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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Nashville, TN

November 30, 1997Davidson County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Nov 30, 1997, 3:10 PM CST for Davidson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 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
Nov 30, 1997, 3:10 PM CST (21:10 UTC)
Expired
Nov 30, 1997, 5:10 PM CST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Davidson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 17 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 12:00Z on 1997-11-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 194 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 12:00Z on 1997-11-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBNA 302108
FFWBNA
TNC037-302310-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
310 PM CST SUN NOV 30 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 510 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

   ...DAVIDSON
 
ALMOST 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT THE NASHVILLE AIRPORT IN THE
LAST HOUR AND THIS RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.  THE
RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER THE NASHVILLE METRO AREA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE
OF HOURS WITH ANOTHER INCH POSSIBLE.

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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 30, 8:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBenton34 min
Nov 30, 11:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis41 min
Nov 30, 11:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Maury60 min
Nov 30, 11:58 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson62 min
Nov 30, 12:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis56 min
Nov 30, 12:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall61 min
Nov 30, 12:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry57 min
Nov 30, 12:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence67 min
Nov 30, 12:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles55 min
Nov 30, 12:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Maury63 min
Nov 30, 12:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson55 min
Nov 30, 1:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDickson69 min
Nov 30, 1:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall59 min
Nov 30, 1:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilliamson59 min
Nov 30, 1:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee69 min
Nov 30, 1:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson63 min
Nov 30, 2:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin58 min
Nov 30, 2:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford58 min
Nov 30, 2:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarion56 min
Nov 30, 2:56 PM CSTTornado WarningOHXDavidson34 min
Nov 30, 3:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee, Warren58 min
Nov 30, 3:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson58 min
Nov 30, 3:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGrundy62 min
Nov 30, 3:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBledsoe45 min
Nov 30, 4:07 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXWilson3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.