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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN

January 23, 200221 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2002, 3:27 PM CST for 21 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 2 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, 3:27 PM CST (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 2002, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

All 21 counties

Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 232127
FFWBNA

TNC003-015-031-035-041-051-055-061-099-101-103-117-119-127-141-149-
175-177-181-185-189-232330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
325 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING TENNESSEE COUNTIES...
  BEDFORD.
  CANNON.
  COFFEE.
  CUMBERLAND.
  DE KALB.
  FRANKLIN.
  GILES.
  GRUNDY.
  LAWRENCE.
  LEWIS.
  LINCOLN.
  MARSHALL.
  MAURY.
  MOORE.
  PUTNAM.
  RUTHERFORD.
  VAN BUREN.
  WARREN.
  WAYNE.
  WHITE.
  AND WILSON.
  
* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 325 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED
  TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS OVER MUCH OF THE WARNING AREA. FLASH FLOODING
  HAS BEEN REPORTED TODAY AT MANY LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA...AND
  ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL ONLY WORSEN THE SITUATION. EVEN THOUGH
  RAIN HAS DIMINISHED OR ENDED OVER COUNTIES NEAR THE ALABAMA 
  BORDER...RUN OFF FROM EARLIER RAINS ILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE 
  FLOOD PROBLEMS

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.

$$

LAT...LON 3534 8797 3508 8794 3504 8778 3505 8606
          3555 8562 3568 8540 3603 8484 3624 8550
          3607 8586 3607 8607 3624 8633 3603 8644
          3569 8671 3580 8711 3558 8754

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KOHX 232159
FFSBNA
TNC003-015-031-035-041-051-055-061-099-101-103-117-119-127-141-149-
175-177-181-185-189-232330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
356 PM CST WED JAN 23 2002

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 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 CROSSVILLE

AT 4 PM...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN...CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF THE WARNING AREA...MAINLY
BETWEEN MURFREESBORO...MCMINNVILLE...CROSSVILLE AND COOKEVILLE.
ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS WERE OBSERVED FURTHER SOUTH.

EVEN THOUGH RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH OVER THE WARNING AREA
THIS EVENING...RUN OFF FROM EARLIER RAINS WILL CONTINUE PRODUCE
THE THREAT OF FLOODING AT LEAST THROUGH 530 PM.
$$
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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, 11:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Putnam, Wilson	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2002 Every 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.