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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1998, 7:32 AM CDT for Hickman County, Lewis County, Tennessee. It was in force for 93 min. 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 19, 1998, 7:32 AM CDT (12:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 9:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hickman County, TN, Lewis County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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 191240 COR FFWBNA TNC081-101-191405- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION TO NARRATIVE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 732 AM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HICKMAN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE LEWIS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE * UNTIL 905 AM CDT * AT 727 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS WILL CAUSE CREEKS AND STREAMS TO RISE QUICKLY OUT OF THEIR BANKS. MOTORISTS NEED TO AVOID AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! WSS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 19, 2:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
230 AM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998
NRLY SOLID AREA OF CONVECTN MOVG SLWLY E-SE ACRS WRN KY ATTM. XPCT
SHWRS/TSTMS TO MOV INTO NW CRNR OF MID TN BY 08Z AND INTO NRN SXNS OF
MID TN INCLUDING BNA VCNTY BY DAYBREAK. CONVCTN SHOULD GRDLLY DIMINSH
THIS AM BUT RE-FIRE OVR SRN AND ERN SXNS THIS AFTN DURING PRIME AFTN
HEATING. HVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL QUITE HIGH AS AREA NOT MOVING THAT FAST
AND PRECIP WATER VALUES ACRS RGN BTWN 130-150% OF NORMAL OVR RGN.
BASICALLY FOLLOWED ETA MDL AS IT INITIALIZED WELL AND VERIFIED MOST
PARAMETERS AT 06Z. (SOME QUESTION AS TO VALIDITY OF NGM DATA AND AVN
NOT AVAILABLE ATTM.)
PREFER POPS A CAT HIGHER THAN CURRENTLY ADVERTISED FOR TDY WHILE CHC
POP NEEDED FOR THIS EVENING TO COVER CONVCTN LIKELY TO LINGER PAST 00Z
OVR S AND E SXNS OF MID TN. MDLS INDICATE WEAK S/W TRAVERSING LWR GRT
LAKES SAT AFTN/EVENING...THUS MAY NED TO INTRODUCE SLGHT CHC POP FOR
NRN COUNTIES LATE IN THE DAY SAT.
POTENTIAL FOR TEMP BUST TDY. SINCE ANTICIPATING CLD COVER/CONVCTN FOR
PART OF THE DAY...WOULD LEAN TWD TEMPS A CAT COOLER FWC NUMBERS ESP NRN
SXNS.
09
BNA 90/71/94 602 COOKEVILLE 90/68/93 522
LAWRENCEBURG 92/72/95 52-Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.