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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Nashville, TN

May 28, 2002Perry County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2002, 5:19 PM CDT for Perry County, Tennessee. It was in force for 86 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 2002, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
86 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 155 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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 282219
FFWBNA
TNC135-282345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
520 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 514 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
RAIN JUST WEST OF LOBELVILLE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
HOHENWALD...MOVING VERY LITTLE.  RADAR HAS SHOWN OVER 3 INCHES OF 
RAIN IN THIS AREA IN JUST OVER AN HOURS TIME...AND THE HEAVY RAIN 
WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING.  

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL REMAIN...
JUST WEST OF LOBELVILLE.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS 
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS, RIVERS OR 
CREEKS, WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS DURING HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD 
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

$$

GIRODO
LAT...LON 3576 8801 3568 8784 3580 8777 3581 8791

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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.