Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:25 PM CST for Sumner County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 6:25 PM CST (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 523 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 558 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOHX 140028 FFWOHX TNC165-140430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 625 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1030 PM CST * AT 620 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING OF VEHICLES IN THE WHITEHOUSE AREA IN WESTERN SUMNER COUNTY. HARDEST HIT AREAS ARE FROM WHITEHOUSE TO OAK GROVE NORTH OF THE GALLATIN AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NASHVILLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 26 min |
| Feb 13, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 26 min |
| Feb 13, 8:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 8:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Macon | 2 hr |
| Feb 13, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 36 min |
| Feb 13, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 44 min |
| Feb 13, 9:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren, White | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 37 min |
| Feb 13, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 35 min |
| Feb 14, 12:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Warren | 29 min |
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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.