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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Nashville, TN

March 17, 2002Fentress County, Overton County, Pickett County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 17, 2002, 9:08 PM CST for Fentress County, Overton County, Pickett County, 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, 9:08 PM CST (03:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2002, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fentress County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 180308
FFWBNA
TNC049-133-137-180600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
903 PM CST SUN MAR 17 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FENTRESS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  OVERTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF LIVINGSTON...BYRDSTOWN AND JAMESTOWN

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST

* AT 858 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER RICKMAN IN OVERTON COUNTY TO BYRDSTOWN AND LIVINGSTON.
  RADAR ESTIMATES MORE 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE AREA
  WITH ANOTHER INCH OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT.

* EXPECT FLOODING OF ROADS IN LOW LYING AREAS...AND AREA STREAMS AND 
  CREEKS MAY ALSO RISE ABOVE BANKS AND FLOOD ADJACENT FIELDS.

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 3633 8550 3619 8536 3652 8479 3673 8500

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, 8:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 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, 9:29 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

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2002 Every 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.