Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2000, 8:52 PM CDT for 5 counties in 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
- Jun 21, 2000, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Smith County, TN, Trousdale County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOHX 220156 FFWOHX TNC027-087-111-159-169-220445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORECTED TO ADD NORTHERN SMITH COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 852 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE SOUTHEASTERN MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE EXTREME NORTHERN SMITH COUNTY IN TENNESSEE TROUSDALE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HARTSVILLE * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 846 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER TROUSDALE COUNTY EXTENDING NORTHEASTWARD INTO SOUTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY. RAINFALL IS BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF BUT AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL APPROACH BANKFULL WITH FLOODING OF LOW AREAS. 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 OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUNDc IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. $$ JLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 8:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Trousdale | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.