Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2002, 5:22 PM CDT for Houston 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 21, 2002, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOHX 212222 FFWBNA TNC083-220115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 521 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HOUSTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ERIN * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 519 PM CDT...AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER ERIN...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF ERIN...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY AT 540 PM CDT 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. $$ 21 LAT...LON 3632 8779 3620 8763 3630 8756 3634 8766
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KOHX 212344 FFSBNA TNC083-220115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 643 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HOUSTON COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT... AT 625 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT PRECIPITATION HAS ENDED ACROSS THE HOUSTON COUNTY AREA AND ONLY A FEW ISOLATED SOUTHWARD MOVING SHOWERS EXISTED NEAR WAVERLY IN HUMPHREYS COUNTY. THOUGH THE RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA HAS ENDED...KEEP IN MIND THAT FLASH FLOODING CAN STILL OCCUR EVEN SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE RAINFALL DIMINISHES. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED AS MUCH AS 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAD OCCURRED OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF HOUSTON COUNTY. THE HOUSTON COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT AND THE CENTRAL DISPATCH OFFICE HAVE REPORTED SEVERAL SMALL BRIDGES WASHED OUT EAST OF TOWN AS WELL AS NUMEROUS AUTO ACCIDENTS. FLASH FLOODING IS THE NUMBER ONE WEATHER RELATED KILLER. PLEASE AVOID BECOMING A STATISTIC. IF THE WATER LEVEL BEGINS TO RISE IN YOUR AREA...SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. IN ADDITION...WHEN DRIVING AN AUTOMOBILE...NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. $$ 21
000 WGUS74 KOHX 220025 FFSBNA TNC083-220115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 725 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HOUSTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... LATEST SURFACE REPORTS FROM LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT IN HOUSTON COUNTY INDICATE THAT WATER LEVELS HAVE DROPPED ACROSS THE AREA. THEREFORE...GIVEN THAT THE RAINFALL HAS ENDED...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ 21
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.