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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Nashville, TN

June 26, 2002Hickman County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2002, 4:49 PM CDT for Hickman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 116 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
Jun 26, 2002, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Hickman County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 2002-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1768 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 2002-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
1768 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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 262149
FFWBNA
TNC081-262345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
447 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HICKMAN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CENTERVILLE

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 442 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN IN THE CENTERVILLE AREA.

* DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT NEARLY TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN 
  HAVE FALLEN IN THE CENTERVILLE AREA IN THE PAST HOUR. THIS WILL LIKELY 
  CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW AREAS. MOTORISTS USE CAUTION
  DUE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF HYDROPLANING.  

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.

$$

JLM

$$

LAT...LON 3582 8757 3570 8742 3587 8721 3599 8740

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCumberland109 min

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.