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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Nashville, TN

July 12, 2000White County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2000, 2:15 AM CDT for White 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: Jul 12, 2000, 2:15 AM CDT (07:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2000, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County White County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 3934 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1280 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 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 120717
FFWOHX
TNC185-121015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
215 AM CDT WED JUL 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WHITE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPARTA

* UNTIL 515 AM CDT

* AT 211 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN OVER NORTHERN WHITE COUNTY ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
IN THE AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.

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 GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CRE&EKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	32 min
Jul 12, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	35 min
Jul 12, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	24 min
Jul 12, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Montgomery	28 min
Jul 12, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	28 min
Jul 12, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Smith, Wilson	38 min
Jul 12, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	39 min
Jul 12, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	40 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2000 Every 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.