Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 17, 2002, 5:24 PM CST for 4 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
- Mar 17, 2002, 5:24 PM CST (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2002, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Macon County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 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 172324 FFWBNA TNC111-165-169-189-180215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 520 PM CST SUN MAR 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE TROUSDALE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LAFAYETTE...HENDERSONVILLE... GALLATIN...MOUNT JULIET...GREEN HILL * UNTIL 815 PM CST * AT 514 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM HENDERSONVILLE TO HARTSVILLE TO MEADORVILLE IN MACON COUNTY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED IN THE PAST 3 HOURS WITH ANOTHER INCH OF RAINFALL EXPECTED IN THE NEXT 2 HOURS. * EXPECT FLOODING OF AREA ROADWAYS IN LOW LYING AREAS AND ANY AREA IN THE VICINITY OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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 3632 8670 3617 8659 3640 8587 3666 8614
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Wayne | 28 min |
| Mar 16, 10:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb | 38 min |
| Mar 17, 12:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 1:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys and 2 more | 3 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.