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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Nashville, TN

June 26, 2001Overton County, Pickett County, Putnam County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2001, 6:26 PM CDT for Overton County, Pickett County, Putnam 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
Jun 26, 2001, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 2001-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 217 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 2001-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 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 262340
FFWOHX
TNC133-137-141-270200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
626 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  OVERTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  EASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 625 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR BYRDSTOWN IN PICKETT COUNTY...
  SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN OVERTON COUNTY...TO NEAR MONTEREY
  IN EASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY. THE STROMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS
  ALREADY FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS IN THE AREA. ADDITIONAL RAIN AMOUNTS
  BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
  TO DEVELOP AND MOVE NORTH.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN LOW
LYING AREAS AND ALONG SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

$$
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LAT...LON 3610 8542 3606 8525 3623 8512 3648 8508
          3662 8496 3661 8518

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 12:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles33 min
Jun 26, 12:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Warren28 min
Jun 26, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence27 min
Jun 26, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson, Putnam36 min
Jun 26, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Warren36 min
Jun 26, 1:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence2 hr
Jun 26, 1:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln24 min
Jun 26, 1:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWarren113 min
Jun 26, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury36 min
Jun 26, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln36 min
Jun 26, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson42 min
Jun 26, 2:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLincoln2 hr
Jun 26, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne31 min
Jun 26, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Moore38 min
Jun 26, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon45 min
Jun 26, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford36 min
Jun 26, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles35 min
Jun 26, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford39 min
Jun 26, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXOverton31 min
Jun 26, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson34 min
Jun 26, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson46 min
Jun 26, 4:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXRutherford2 hr
Jun 26, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPickett13 min
Jun 26, 4:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXOverton, Pickett2 hr
Jun 26, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPickett43 min
Jun 26, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam26 min
Jun 26, 5:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXPutnam2 hr
Jun 26, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPickett49 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren, White43 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam43 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.