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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Nashville, TN

June 26, 2001Rutherford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2001, 4:28 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
Jun 26, 2001, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2001, 6:30 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 21:31 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, 9.5 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 217 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 2001-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
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 262134
FFWBNA
TNC149-262330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 420 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS
  RUTHERFORD COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING
OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...AND COUNTRY ROADS.
LOW LYING AREAS ARE ESPECIALLY SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

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 3593 8657 3573 8654 3578 8622 3596 8626

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 12:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles33 min
Jun 26, 12:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Warren28 min
Jun 26, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence27 min
Jun 26, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson, Putnam36 min
Jun 26, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Warren36 min
Jun 26, 1:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLawrence2 hr
Jun 26, 1:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln24 min
Jun 26, 1:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWarren113 min
Jun 26, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury36 min
Jun 26, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLincoln36 min
Jun 26, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXJackson42 min
Jun 26, 2:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLincoln2 hr
Jun 26, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne31 min
Jun 26, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Moore38 min
Jun 26, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon45 min
Jun 26, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford36 min
Jun 26, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXGiles35 min
Jun 26, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford39 min
Jun 26, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXOverton31 min
Jun 26, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Williamson34 min
Jun 26, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson46 min
Jun 26, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPickett13 min
Jun 26, 4:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXOverton, Pickett2 hr
Jun 26, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPickett43 min
Jun 26, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam26 min
Jun 26, 5:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXPutnam2 hr
Jun 26, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPickett49 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren, White43 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam43 min
Jun 26, 6:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXOverton, Pickett, Putnam3 hr

Nearby

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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.