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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Nov 24, 2001, 8:01 PM CST for Coffee County, Warren County, White 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
- Nov 24, 2001, 8:01 PM CST (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coffee County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOHX 250208 FFWBNA TNC031-177-185-250500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 801 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN COFFEE COUNTY...WARREN COUNTY...AND WHITE COUNTY * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 756 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM NEAR SPARTA, THROUGH MCMINNVILLE, TO JUST EAST OF ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE. THIS LINE IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE SOUTHERN PLATEAU, WITH ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM NORTHERN ALABAMA. SOME STREET FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN WARREN COUNTY, ESPECIALLY MCMINNVILLE, WHERE FLOODING OF HOMES HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS, OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. $$ MAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Warren | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 8:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Nov 24, 9:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Putnam | 4 hr |
| Nov 24, 9:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 4 hr |
| Nov 24, 9:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.