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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Nashville, TN

July 31, 2000Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2000, 4:47 PM CDT for Wayne 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, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 312150
FFWOHX
TNC181-010045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
447 PM CDT MON JUL 31 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 440 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MORE THAN
  THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME OVER
  SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY. MOST OF THE AFFECTED AREA IS EAST OF
  THE NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY WITH THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS ALONG HIGHWAY 13.

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 CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. 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.

$$

JLM

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, 3:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	3 hr
Jul 31, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Wilson	25 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.