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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Nashville, TN

June 26, 2002Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2002, 7:18 PM CDT for Lawrence 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
Jun 26, 2002, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 00:00Z on 2002-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1294 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 00:00Z on 2002-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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 270018
FFWBNA
TNC099-270315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 710 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN BETWEEN LAWRENCEBURG AND LORETTO ALONG HIGHWAY 43.

* DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE 
  PAST HOUR OVER THIS AREA. THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF AREA
  ROADWAYS AND LOW AREAS IN SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY. MOTORISTS SHOULD
  USE CAUTION DUE 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.

$$

LAT...LON 3516 8756 3503 8740 3521 8722 3537 8727

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 9:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence3 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.