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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN

March 10, 2000Bedford County, Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 2000, 3:27 PM CST for Bedford County, Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 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: Mar 10, 2000, 3:27 PM CST (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bedford County, TN, Marshall County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 373 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 406 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 102131
FFWOHX
TNC003-117-102330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
327 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBYVILLE
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 323 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MARSHALL AND BEDFORD COUNTIES.
HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA...
AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING
OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND LOW LYING AREAS.

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 XCROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.
$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 12:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	47 min
Mar 10, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Marshall, Maury	45 min
Mar 10, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	45 min
Mar 10, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	45 min
Mar 10, 1:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	118 min
Mar 10, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford	47 min
Mar 10, 1:47 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Rutherford	118 min
Mar 10, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	62 min
Mar 10, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	47 min
Mar 10, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee	58 min
Mar 10, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	58 min
Mar 10, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	41 min
Mar 10, 3:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland	114 min
Mar 10, 3:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	2 hr
Mar 10, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	63 min
Mar 10, 5:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Wayne	3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.