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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN

March 10, 2000Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 2000, 3:43 PM CST for Lawrence 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, 3:43 PM CST (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 2 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 21:45 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, 9.7 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.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 102146
FFWOHX
TNC099-102345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG

* UNTIL 545 PM CST

* AT 341 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY MOVING OVER THE SAME AREA IN LAWRENCE COUNTY.
RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE RAINFALL TOTALS OF BETWEEN TWO AND A HALF
TO THREE AND A HALF INCHES ACROSS THE AREA SO FAR TODAY.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN
DEPTH BY FdOOT 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, 3:27 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	2 hr
Mar 10, 3:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cumberland	114 min
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.