Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 2002, 4:26 AM CST for 14 counties in 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
- Mar 18, 2002, 4:26 AM CST (10:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2002, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bedford County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Moore County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:29 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 181028
FFWBNA
TNC003-031-035-049-051-055-061-099-103-117-127-175-177-185-181415-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
426 AM CST MON MAR 18 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN TENNESSEE
LAWRENCE...GILES...MARSHALL...BEDFORD...MOORE...LINCOLN...
FRANKLIN...COFFEE...WARREN...GRUNDY...VAN BUREN...CUMBERLAND...
FENTRESS...AND WHITE
* AT 424 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN
CONTINUING ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNING AREA WITH PRECIPITATION
EXTENDING BACK INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF MS.
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS, OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH
BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT
IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.
A FLOOD WARNING ALSO 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.
$$The 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 17, 10:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Giles and 8 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every 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.