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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Nashville, TN

April 17, 2000Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 17, 2000, 12:52 AM CDT for Stewart 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
Apr 17, 2000, 12:52 AM CDT (05:52 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 2000, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 168 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 170557
FFWOHX
TNC161-171000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1252 AM CDT MON APR 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 1248 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN ACROSS STEWART COUNTY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF BETWEEN 1 AND 2
INCHES HAVE OCCURED BETWEEN 1145 PM AND 1245 AM...WITH OVER 2 INCHES
BETWEEN FORT HENRY AND BIG ROCK.  WITH MORE THUNDERSTORMS OVER HENRY
AND CARROLL COUNTIES PROJECTED TO MOVE INTO STEWART COUNTY THROUGH
230 AM...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY.

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.
$$
JDG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 1:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart29 min
Apr 17, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery40 min
Apr 17, 3:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford36 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2000Every 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.