Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2002, 8:45 AM CST for 5 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 23, 2002, 8:45 AM CST (14:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2002, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cannon County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Maury County, TN, Rutherford County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:46 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 502 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 231445 FFWBNA TNC015-041-101-119-149-231730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 844 AM CST WED JAN 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CANNON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WOODBURY DE KALB COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SMITHVILLE LEWIS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HOHENWALD MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBIA RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MURFREESBORO * UNTIL 1130 AM CST * AT 840 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER THE AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE AND A HALF TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES WERE COMMON OVER THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. ALWAYS REMEMBER...NOT TO DRIVE ACROSS AREAS WHERE WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH COVERS THE ROAD. $$ 19
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KOHX 231629 FFSBNA TNC003-015-031-035-041-051-055-061-099-101-103-117-119-127-149-175- 177-181-185-231730- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1020 AM CST WED JAN 23 2002 FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS MORNING...DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. ...IN LAWRENCE COUNTY SEVERAL FAMILIES WERE EVACUATED IN ADVANCE OF RISING WATERS IN DOWNTOWN LAWRENCEBURG. SHOAL CREEK WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS...WITH WATER OVER NUMEROUS ROADS. HIGHWAY 43...IN LORETTO...WAS UNDER WATER. ...IN COFFEE COUNTY...SEVERAL STREAMS WERE REPORTED OUT OF THEIR BANKS. ...IN FRANKLIN COUNTY...FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN ESTILL SPRINGS AND SOME ROADS WERE CLOSED. ...IN MAURY COUNTY...SEVERAL AUTO ACCIDENTS WERE REPORTED DUE TO FLOODING. WATER WAS OVER SOME ROADS AND THREATENING SEVERAL RESIDENCES. ...IN DEKALB COUNTY...WATER WAS REPORTED OVER MANY ROADS...WITH STREAMS AND CREEKS AT BANKFULL. ...IN CANNON COUNTY...ROADS WERE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER IN AUBURNTOWN AND BRADYVILLE. SOME OF GREATEST RAINFALL TOTALS REPORTED OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING INCLUDED... 4.50 INCHES IN GILES COUNTY. 3.80 INCHES AT PULASKI...IN GILES COUNTY 3.39 INCHES AT IRON CITY...IN LAWRENCE COUNTY 3.25 INCHES IN LYNCHBURG 2.81 INCHES IN DUNN...IN LAWRENCE COUNTY 2.75 INCHES IN ESTILL SPRINGS...IN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND 2.70 INCHES AT EAGLEVILLE...IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU THROUGH 1130 AM. $$ 19
000 WGUS74 KOHX 231633 CCA FFSBNA TNC003-015-031-035-041-051-055-061-099-101-103-117-119-127-149-175- 177-181-185-231730- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1020 AM CST WED JAN 23 2002 FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE THIS MORNING...DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL. ...IN LAWRENCE COUNTY SEVERAL FAMILIES WERE EVACUATED IN ADVANCE OF RISING WATERS IN DOWNTOWN LAWRENCEBURG. SHOAL CREEK WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS...WITH WATER OVER NUMEROUS ROADS. HIGHWAY 43...IN LORETTO...WAS UNDER WATER. ...IN COFFEE COUNTY...SEVERAL STREAMS WERE REPORTED OUT OF THEIR BANKS. ...IN FRANKLIN COUNTY...FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN ESTILL SPRINGS AND SOME ROADS WERE CLOSED. ...IN MAURY COUNTY...SEVERAL AUTO ACCIDENTS WERE REPORTED DUE TO FLOODING. WATER WAS OVER SOME ROADS AND THREATENING SEVERAL RESIDENCES. ...IN DEKALB COUNTY...WATER WAS REPORTED OVER MANY ROADS...WITH STREAMS AND CREEKS AT BANKFULL. ...IN CANNON COUNTY...ROADS WERE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER IN AUBURNTOWN AND BRADYVILLE. SOME OF THE GREATEST RAINFALL TOTALS REPORTED OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING INCLUDED... 4.50 INCHES IN GILES COUNTY. 3.80 INCHES AT PULASKI IN GILES COUNTY. 3.39 INCHES AT IRON CITY IN LAWRENCE COUNTY. 3.25 INCHES IN LYNCHBURG. 2.81 INCHES IN DUNN IN LAWRENCE COUNTY. 2.75 INCHES IN ESTILL SPRINGS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY. AND 2.70 INCHES AT EAGLEVILLE IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY. FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU THROUGH 1130 AM. $$ 19
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 6:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 6:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 8:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 11:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Franklin and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 11:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Putnam, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Franklin and 15 more | 2 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.