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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Nashville, TN

September 26, 20024 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2002, 10:42 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 26, 2002, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
Expired: Sep 27, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Benton County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Stewart County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 280 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 587 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 270342
FFWBNA
TNC005-083-085-161-270630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1042 PM CDT THU SEP 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BENTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  HOUSTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 130 AM CDT

* AT 1025 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN CAMDEN 
IN BENTON COUNTY.  IN 24 HOURS RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES ARE 
COMMON ACROSS THE AREA WITH AS MUCH AS 7 INCHES IN ISOLATED AREAS.  
EXPECT ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES BEFORE RAINFALL ENDS LATER 
TONIGHT...EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.

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 3601 8819 3588 8803 3628 8758 3650 8774

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KOHX 270443
FFSBNA
TNC005-083-085-161-270630-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1142 PM CDT THU SEP 26 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM FOR BENTON...
HOUSTON...HUMPHREYS AND STEWART COUNTIES...

AT 1130 PM...MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED TO MOVE
NORTHWARD ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. THIS ACTIVITY EXTENDED SOUTHWARD
ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE MID STATE. SO FAR...FLASH
FLOODING HAS ONLY BEEN REPORTED IN BENTON COUNTY WHERE ABOUT 30 ROADS
HAVE BEEN CLOSED IN THE BIG SANDY AND CAMDEN AREAS. WITH AN
ADDITIONAL 1 TO AS MUCH AS 2 MORE INCHES OF RAINFALL EXPECTED...FLASH
FLOODING STILL REMAINS LIKELY ACROSS THE WARNING AREA.

FLASH FLOODING IS THE NUMBER ONE WEATHER RELATED KILLER. TO AVOID
BECOMING A STATISTIC...PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WHEN TRAVELING...DO
NOT CROSS WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PUSH YOUR
VEHICLE OUT OF A FLOODED LOW LYING AREA.

IF THE WATER LEVEL IN YOUR AREA BEGINS TO RISE RAPIDLY...SEEK
HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

$$

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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.