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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2000, 3:12 PM CDT for Lawrence 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 31, 2000, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 806 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOHX 312018 FFWOHX TNC099-312315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 312 PM CDT MON JUL 31 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 * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 306 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF LAWRENCEBURG TO NEAR WESTPOINT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * MAMY AREAS IN AND SOUTH OF LAWRENCEBURG RECEIVED BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL BETWEEN 200 PM AND 300 PM...WITH AREAS NEAR WESTPOINT RECEIVING MORE THAN 2.5 INCHES. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...AND ESPECIALLY LOW WATER CROSSINGS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. $$ MAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton | 36 min |
| Jul 30, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Wilson | 25 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.