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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Nashville, TN

May 3, 2000Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 2000, 4:20 PM CDT for Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 70 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: May 3, 2000, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 70 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Marshall County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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 032123
FFWOHX
TNC117-032230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
420 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEWISBURG

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 417 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  LEWISBURG. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL
  CONTINUE TO TRACK THROUGH MARSHALL COUNTY THROUGH 5 PM. THIS WILL
  LIKELY PRODUCE STREET FLOODING...AND FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 1:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Wayne	2 hr
May 3, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	29 min
May 3, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	25 min
May 3, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	32 min
May 3, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall, Maury	35 min
May 3, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	31 min
May 3, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Moore	27 min
May 3, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	25 min
May 3, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Warren	32 min
May 3, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Grundy	24 min
May 3, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb	28 min
May 3, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin	36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.