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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Nashville, TN

July 9, 2001Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2001, 3:25 PM CDT for Rutherford 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: Jul 9, 2001, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Rutherford County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 1891 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 092027
FFWOHX
TNC149-092230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
325 PM CDT MON JUL 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MURFREESBORO

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 325 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS EASTERN RUTHERFORD
  COUNTY...NEAR MURFREESBORO. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO REFORM
  OVER THE AREA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS 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.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE.

$$

GIRODO
LAT...LON 3604 8648 3584 8648 3568 8628 3585 8622

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	26 min
Jul 9, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	36 min
Jul 9, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	33 min
Jul 9, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	54 min
Jul 9, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	58 min
Jul 9, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2001 Every 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.