Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 24, 2002, 7:57 AM CST for 32 counties in 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
- Jan 24, 2002, 7:57 AM CST (13:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2002, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
All 32 counties
Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:58 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KOHX 241357
FFWBNA
TNC003-015-027-031-035-037-041-049-051-055-061-087-099-101-103-111-
117-119-127-133-137-141-149-159-165-169-175-177-181-185-187-189-
241630-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
737 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BEDFORD...CANNON...CLAY...COFFEE...CUMBERLAND...DAVIDSON
DE KALB...FENTRESS...FRANKLIN...GILES...GRUNDY...
JACKSON...LAWRENCE...LEWIS...LINCOLN...MACON...MARSHALL...
MAURY...MOORE...OVERTON...PICKETT...PUTNAM...RUTHERFORD...
SMITH...SUMNER...TROUSDALE...VAN BUREN...WARREN...WAYNE...WHITE...
WILLIAMSON...AND WILSON COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE
* UNTIL 1100 AM CST
* AT 745 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY
OVER THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN HALVES OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THE RAINFALL
COVERED THE AREA EAST OF A LINE FROM PORTLAND TO NASHVILLE TO WAYNESBORO.
SINCE MIDNIGHT...1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER
MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THIS RAIN FELL ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND
WHICH HAD RECEIVED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PREVIOUS 48 HOURS.
LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED FLOODING OF NUMEROUS AREA ROADWAYS
WITH MANY RIVERS AND CREEKS AT OR ABOVE BANKFULL.
RAINFALL WILL TAPER OFF GRADUALLY FROM THE WEST AS A COLD FRONT MOVES
THROUGH THE AREA TODAY.
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 3539 8804 3503 8798 3501 8589 3588 8475
3667 8456 3664 8648 3641 8675 3606 8707
3569 8732The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 12:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 33 min |
| Jan 24, 3:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more | 54 min |
| Jan 24, 3:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Davidson, Giles, Hickman, Jackson, Lawrence and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 5:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 12:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence, Lincoln, Wayne | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.