Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Jan 23, 1999, 12:04 AM CST (06:04 UTC)

Expired

Jan 23, 1999, 4:05 AM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Whole counties

County Robertson County, TN

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1204 AM CST SAT JAN 23 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BENTON COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE
  CHEATHAM COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  DECATUR COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE
  DICKSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  GILES COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  HICKMAN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  HOUSTON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  LEWIS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  PERRY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  ROBERTSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  STEWART COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  WAYNE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 405 AM CST

* AT 1155 PM CST... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY
  RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS
  BEWTEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS AS MUCH AS 8 INCHES HAVE
  BEEN REPORTED SINCE THIS MORNING. AN ADDITIONAL INCH IS POSSIBLE
  BEFORE THE RAIN TAPPERS OFF OVERNIGHT.

  REPORTS OF WIDESPREAD FLOODING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS AND IN
  LOW LYING AREAS HAVE BEEN COMMON THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

  MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION DUE TO PONDING OF WATER ON
  ROADWAYS AND THE POSSIBLITY OF HYDROPLANING. BE ESPECIALLY
  CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT :IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF
  FLOODING.

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NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jan 22, 8:25 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
825 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999

CONVECTION HS BEEN RELENTLESS IF NOT SVR.  RAFL AMTS HVY IN PLACES W/
NR INCH/HR RPTD.  SOME MORE/EXTNDD FFWS MAY BE NEEDED.  TEMPS HOLDING
ARND 60 ALL WAY BACK TO WRN TN.  SEE NO NEED FOR CHGS TO CURRENT FCST
(ALTHO WND ADVY MAY BE UNWARRANTED FOR PLATEAU).

MAG

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
810 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

540 PM     FLINTVILLE                TN   WIND DAMAGE
01/22/99   LINCOLN                        COUNTY EMA REPORTED
                                          ONE OUTBUILDING DESTROYED.

END/ORCHANIAN

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
930 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999

...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR WESTERN HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN PORTIONS OF MIDDLE
   TENNESSEE UNTIL 1 AM CST...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND SATURDAY FOR MIDSTATE...

THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN THAT PROMPTED
SOME SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS EARLIER THIS EVENING HAS SHIFTED
EAST INTO THE EASTERN HALF OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE.  THIS LINE STILL HAS
POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
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THE MAIN PROBLEM FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT WILL BE FLOODING.
MUCH OF THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE MIDSTATE REMAIN UNDER FLASH
FLOOD WARNINGS...AND AS THE HEAVY RAINS SPREAD EAST DURING THE NIGHT...
THE WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE EXPANDED EAST AS WELL.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE RESIDENTS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR MEDIA
SOURCES...SUCH AS NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR THE
LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

GIRODO

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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