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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN

June 26, 2002Cumberland County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2002, 6:26 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Tennessee. It was in force for 109 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, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
109 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Cumberland County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 262326
FFWBNA
TNC035-270115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 616 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER NORTHERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY FROM PLEASANT HILL NORTHWEST
  ACROSS INTERSTATE 40 NEAR MILE MARKER 315 AND EXTENDING ACROSS
  THE CATOOSA WILDLIFE AREA. 

* DOPPLER RADAR IS ESTIMATING 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN
  THIS AREA IN THE PAST HOUR. THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF 
  ROADWAYS AND LOW AREAS IN NORTHERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY. MOTORISTS
  SHOULD 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 3607 8519 3594 8503 3609 8481 3617 8501

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 4:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXHickman116 min

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.