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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Nashville, TN

July 13, 2002Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2002, 7:50 PM CDT for Lincoln 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: Jul 13, 2002, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2002, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -9 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 140050
FFWBNA
TNC103-140345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
747 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 744 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
  RAIN OVER MUCH OF THE COUNTY AS THE RESULT OF A CLUSTER OF         
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS.

* AT THIS TIME, THE MOST FLOOD PRONE AREAS ARE ACROSS THE NORTHERN   
  AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY, WHERE AS MUCH AS 2.2 INCHES OF 
  RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE LAST HOUR.

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. MOST 
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
$$
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LAT...LON 3528 8683 3500 8684 3508 8631 3528 8631
          3538 8659

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KOHX 140220
FFSBNA
TNC103-140345-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
920 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 1045
PM...

AT 912 PM, MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS CONTINUE OVER LINCOLN COUNTY.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED THAT NUMEROUS ROADS IN
THE WESTERN END OF THE COUNTY ARE ALREADY CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
DOPPLER RADAR ALSO SHOWS THAT SOME SPOTS OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF
LINCOLN COUNTY ARE STILL RECEIVING AS MUCH AS 1.8 INCHES OF RAIN PER
HOUR, AND THAT AREAS AROUND COLDWATER RECEIVED UP TO 4.4 INCHES
BETWEEN 600 PM AND 900 PM.

SHOWERS ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE UNTIL THE LATE EVENING IN LINCOLN
COUNTY, SO RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO USE UTMOST CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT FLOODING IS THE NUMBER 1 WEATHER KILLER, AND
THAT MOST FLOODING DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
$$
ROSE

000 
WGUS74 KOHX 140344
FFSBNA
TNC103-140445-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1044 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 2002

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LINCOLN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

AT 1039 PM, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT RAINFALL OVER LINCOLN COUNTY
HAD GREATLY DIMINISHED WITH THE LAST HOUR. ALTHOUGH SHOWERS WERE
STILL FALLING OVER MOST OF THE COUNTY, HOURLY RAINFALL RATES WERE
MAINLY A QUARTER INCH OR LESS. AS A RESULT, THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING
THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE.

DESPITE THE SLACKENING RAINFALL, THOUGH, MANY ROADS REMAIN CLOSED IN
THE AREA, ESPECIALLY IN THE WESTERN END OF THE COUNTY, AND RESIDENTS
ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN OUT DRIVING TONIGHT. PLEASE
REMEMBER THAT FLOODING IS THE NUMBER 1 WEATHER KILLER, AND THAT MOST
FLOODING DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
$$
ROSE

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2002 Every 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.