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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2002, 11:42 AM CST for Putnam County, Wilson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 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
- Jan 23, 2002, 11:42 AM CST (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2002, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Putnam County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 502 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 231742 FFWBNA TNC141-189-232130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1136 AM CST WED JAN 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PUTNAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE AND WILSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 1130 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...OVER WILSON AND PUTNAM COUNTIES. FLASH FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED...AND ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AS MORE RAIN MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. 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. $$ 19
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KOHX 232029 FFSBNA TNC003-015-031-035-041-051-055-061-099-101-103-117-119-127-141-149- 175-177-181-185-189-232130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 220 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM FOR SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND MUCH OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU. THE WARNING COVERS AREA ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WAYNESBORO...TO COLUMBIA...TO MURFREESBORO...TO MOUNT JULIET ...TO COOKEVILLE AND CROSSIVLLE AT 2 PM...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER THE WARNING AREA. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING TODAY AND ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL ONLY WORSEN THE SITUATION. $$ 19
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 6:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 6:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 8:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Lewis, Maury, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 8:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Franklin, Giles, Grundy and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 11:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Franklin and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Franklin and 15 more | 2 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.