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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Nashville, TN

August 1, 2000White County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2000, 3:06 PM 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
Aug 1, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2000, 6:00 PM 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 12:00Z, 8.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2000-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 700 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 2000-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
700 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 012008
FFWOHX
TNC185-012300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
306 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 300 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN CONTINUING OVER NORTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY NEAR THE MALEDONIA
  COMMUNITY. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT AS MUCH AS 3.5
  INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA SINCE NOON. RAIN WILL
  CONTINUE OVER NORTHWESTERN WHITE COUNTY AT LEAST THROUGH 400 PM.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM COULD CAU|SE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES...AS WELL
AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
$$

MAR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Macon35 min
Jul 31, 7:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence3 hr
Jul 31, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Moore29 min
Aug 1, 1:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXMontgomery3 hr
Aug 1, 2:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWayne3 hr

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.