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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 7, 1998, 10:17 AM CST for Marion County, Sequatchie 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
- Jan 7, 1998, 10:17 AM CST (16:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 1998, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 071619 FFWBNA TNC031-051-055-099-103-127-061-115-153-071915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1017 AM CST WED JAN 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...COFFEE COUNTY...FRANKLIN COUNTY...GILES COUNTY ...LAWRENCE COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY...MOORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...GRUNDY COUNTY...MARION COUNTY...SEQUATCHIE COUNTY AT 1012 AM CST AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING NORTH ACROSS SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THIS AREA OF RAIN WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN A HALF TO ONE INCH BETWEEN NOW AND 12 NOON. THIS RAINFALL ON TOP OF THE SATURATED SOIL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICES WERE ALREADY REPORTING HIGH WATER PROBELMS IN MOORE...LINCOLN AND GRUNDY COUNTIES. WITH THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL...MORE HIGH WATER PROBLEMS WILL LIKELY BECOME WIDESPREAD. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 10:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy, Moore | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Franklin, Grundy, Marion | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Jackson, Putnam | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Overton, Pickett | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bledsoe, Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren, White | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 4 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.