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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 17, 2002, 10:13 PM CST for 42 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 17, 2002, 10:13 PM CST (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2002, 4:15 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
All 42 counties
Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KOHX 180505
FFWBNA
TNC003-005-015-021-027-031-035-037-041-043-049-051-055-061-081-083-
085-087-099-101-103-111-117-119-125-127-133-135-137-141-147-149-159-
161-165-169-175-177-181-185-187-189-181015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1013 PM CST SUN MAR 17 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN TENNESSEE
STEWART...SUMNER...ROBERTSON...MONTGOMERY...MACON...CLAY...
PICKETT...FENTRESS...OVERTON...JACKSON...TROUSDALE...CHEATHAM...
SMITH...DAVIDSON...HOUSTON...BENTON...WILSON...DICKSON...
PUTNAM...HUMPHREYS...CUMBERLAND...DE KALB...RUTHERFORD...
WHITE...WILLIAMSON...HICKMAN...CANNON...WARREN...MAURY...
PERRY...VAN BUREN...MARSHALL...COFFEE...BEDFORD...LEWIS...
GRUNDY...WAYNE...LAWRENCE...GILES...MOORE...LINCOLN AND FRANKLIN
* THIS WARNING REPLACES ALL PREVIOUS FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ISSUED BY THIS
OFFICE.
* IN THE PAST 12 HOURS MIDDLE TENNESSEE HAS RECEIVED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF
RAINFALL. SOIL WAS ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE PREVIOUS NIGHTS RAINFALL.
MANY MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNTIES HAVE REPORTED EXTENSIVE FLOODING OF AREA
ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS...PARTICULARLY NEAR CREEKS AND STREAMS.
DOPPLER RADARS IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI...MEMPHIS TENNESSEE AND
NORTHERN ALABAMA CONTINUE TO INDICATE EXTENSIVE SHOWER ACTIVITY MOVING
INTO THE AREA.
* RESIDENTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSE CAN EXPECT AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES
OF RAINFALL BEFORE THE RAINFALL TAPERS OFF LATER TONIGHT.
* ADDITIONALLY SEVERAL MIDDLE TENNESSEE RIVERS ARE IN FLOOD OR
RISING. SEE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE.
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED.
IF YOU RESIDE IN LOW LYING AREAS OR AREAS THAT TEND TO FLOOD EASILY...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. ANYONE ON AREA ROADWAYS SHOULD
NEVER DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS OR ATTEMPT TO CROSS LOW WATER
CROSSINGS.
$$
JLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 7:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 8:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 8:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Giles, Lincoln and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Giles and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Giles and 8 more | 4 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.