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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN

November 28, 2001Stewart County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Nov 28, 2001, 8:48 PM CST for Stewart 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 28, 2001, 8:48 PM CST (02:48 UTC)
Expired
Nov 28, 2001, 11:45 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 00:00Z on 2001-11-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-11-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 314 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
380 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 290253
FFWBNA
TNC161-290545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
848 PM CST WED NOV 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER

* UNTIL 1145 PM CST

* AT 847 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
RAIN MAINLY OVER WESTERN STEWART COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES 
ALMOST ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER WESTERN STEWART COUNTY IN THE 
PAST 3 HOURS. THIS AREA HAS RECEIVED ABOUT 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE PAST
48 HOURS.  

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. DO NOT 
ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS, OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH 
BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT 
IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

$$

LAT...LON 3652 8804 3639 8788 3650 8774 3664 8754
          3680 8773

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 28, 11:38 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Stewart3 hr
Nov 29, 2:45 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart4 hr
Nov 29, 2:22 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence, Maury4 hr
Nov 29, 4:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Robertson4 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.