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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN

June 26, 2001Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2001, 2:10 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: Jun 26, 2001, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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, 7.2 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-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: 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 261917
FFWBNA
TNC103-262115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 205 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN 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.

$$
05
LAT...LON 3524 8682 3503 8683 3501 8633 3513 8635

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	33 min
Jun 26, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Warren	28 min
Jun 26, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	27 min
Jun 26, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	36 min
Jun 26, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Warren	36 min
Jun 26, 1:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	2 hr
Jun 26, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	24 min
Jun 26, 1:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Warren	113 min
Jun 26, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury	36 min
Jun 26, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	36 min
Jun 26, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson	42 min
Jun 26, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	31 min
Jun 26, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Moore	38 min
Jun 26, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon	45 min
Jun 26, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	36 min
Jun 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	35 min
Jun 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	39 min
Jun 26, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Overton	31 min
Jun 26, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	34 min
Jun 26, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	46 min
Jun 26, 4:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Rutherford	2 hr
Jun 26, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	13 min
Jun 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Overton, Pickett	2 hr
Jun 26, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	43 min
Jun 26, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	26 min
Jun 26, 5:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Putnam	2 hr
Jun 26, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Pickett	49 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, White	43 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	43 min
Jun 26, 6:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Overton, Pickett, Putnam	3 hr

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.