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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 16, 2000, 4:55 PM CST for 17 counties in 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
- Dec 16, 2000, 4:55 PM CST (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cannon County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Smith County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 500 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 162302 FFWOHX TNC015-027-031-035-041-049-051-061-087-111-133-137-141-159-175-177- 185-170200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 455 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CANNON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WOODBURY CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CELINA COFFEE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MANCHESTER CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CROSSVILLE DE KALB COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SMITHVILLE FENTRESS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WINCHESTER GRUNDY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE JACKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GAINESBORO MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE OVERTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LIVINGSTON PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BYRDSTOWN PUTNAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COOKEVILLE SMITH COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CARTHAGE VAN BUREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPENCER WARREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCMINNVILLE WHITE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPARTA * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 455 PM CST...HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF THE EASTERN PART OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL OCCUR OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...CONTINUING THE THREAT FOR FLOODING. FLOODING OCCURS NOT JUST AS THE RAIN IS OCCURRING...BUT CAN LAST FOR SEVERAL HOURS AFTERWARDS. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND PARTS OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU UNTIL 800 PM CST. 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. $$ SH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 9:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Dec 16, 12:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Macon, Maury, Rutherford and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 16, 12:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Dec 16, 1:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall | 2 hr |
| Dec 16, 1:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Smith | 105 min |
| Dec 16, 2:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb | 105 min |
| Dec 16, 2:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy, Warren | 93 min |
| Dec 16, 3:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Putnam, White | 2 hr |
| Dec 16, 3:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marshall and 6 more | 105 min |
| Dec 16, 3:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Moore, Warren | 85 min |
| Dec 16, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Grundy | 37 min |
| Dec 16, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Dec 16, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 40 min |
Nearby
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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.