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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Nashville, TN

May 4, 2000Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 4, 2000, 6:32 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Stewart 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: May 4, 2000, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 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 042341
FFWOHX
TNC125-161-050230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
632 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  EASTERN STEWART COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER AND PALMYRA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 630 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ADDITIONAL
  THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK ACROSS EASTERN STEWART AND
  WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTIES. THIS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STREET FLOODING
  AND FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL FILL
  DURING HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
$$
BOYD
01

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	28 min
May 3, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	49 min
May 4, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Stewart	34 min
May 4, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	30 min
May 4, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	34 min
May 4, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	46 min
May 4, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry, Wayne	55 min
May 4, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Stewart	53 min
May 4, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	39 min
May 4, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	28 min

Nearby

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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.