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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Nashville, TN

April 3, 2000Franklin County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 3, 2000, 12:35 PM CDT for Franklin 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: Apr 3, 2000, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 78 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 031743
FFWOHX
TNC051-032100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1235 PM CDT MON APR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WINCHESTER

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 1240 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER MOST OF THE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCAL
  LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW
  LYING AREAS ACROSS THE COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL 0.75 TO 1.0 INCHES OF
  RAIN IS LIKELY ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON.

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.
$$
05
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 WEATH5ER 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
Apr 2, 7:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	5 hr
Apr 2, 7:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles	4 hr
Apr 2, 8:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lincoln	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2000 Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.