Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 17, 2002, 8:00 PM CST for 7 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, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2002, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 180200 FFWBNA TNC027-087-111-159-165-169-189-180500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 754 PM CST SUN MAR 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE JACKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE MACON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE SMITH COUNTY IN TENNESSEE SUMNER COUNTY IN TENNESSEE TROUSDALE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF GALLATIN...LAFAYETTE AND MOUNT JULIET * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 747 PM CST...THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS BEGINNING TO MOVE TO THE EAST. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER THE AREA. AREA ROADWAYS WILL CONTINUE TO FLOOD...ESPECIALLY IN LOW AREAS. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL RAINFALL HAS A CHANCE TO DRAIN OFF. 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 3635 8662 3619 8653 3638 8554 3679 8575
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 7:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 8:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Giles, Lincoln and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 10:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Giles and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Giles and 8 more | 4 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.