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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Nashville, TN

June 27, 2000Lawrence County, Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 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 27, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lawrence County, TN, Wayne County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 272031
FFWOHX
TNC099-181-272230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
330 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG
  SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 328 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
  HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WAYNE AND LAWRENCE
  COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  COLLINWOOD IN SOUTHEAST WAYNE COUNTY.

A LARGE AREA OF 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN THESE
AREAS...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ANOTHER INCH REMAINS POSSIBLE.
THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO OVERFLOW THEIR
BANKS...FLOODING LOW LYING AREAS. STREET FLOODING IS ALSO LIKLEY.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY @FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN
DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE...ESPECIALLY LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IF
YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

$$

DICKSON 15

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall35 min
Jun 27, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson, Smith34 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.