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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Nashville, TN

August 10, 2001Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2001, 12:38 PM CDT for Lincoln 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
Aug 10, 2001, 12:38 PM CDT (17:38 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 2001-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1372 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 2001-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
1372 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 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 101741
FFWBNA
TNC103-101945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1238 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 1231 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER WESTERN AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY...MOVING EAST SLOWLY.

DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED MORE THAN 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED
OVER PARTS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE PAST 3 HOURS.
RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT HOUR WITH AND ADDITIONAL HALF INCH 
OF RAINFALL EXPECTED. LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT A FEW ROADS ALREADY 
HAVE WATER OVER THE ROAD.

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. MOST
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES,
DIPS, OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NEVER TRY TO CROSS
A FLOWING STREAM, EVEN A SMALL ONE, ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER,
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

$$

LAT...LON 3508 8685 3497 8667 3523 8639 3537 8661

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 10:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXFranklin3 hr
Aug 10, 11:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCoffee3 hr
Aug 10, 12:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCumberland2 hr

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.