Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 24, 2002, 3:25 AM CST for 8 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2002, 3:25 AM CST (09:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2002, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Stewart County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 682 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KOHX 240925 CCA
FFWBNA
TNC005-021-043-083-085-125-147-161-241215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
314 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BENTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
DICKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
HOUSTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF DOVER...CAMDEN...ASHLAND CITY...ERIN...
WAVERLY...CLARKSVILLE...DICKSON AND SPRINGFIELD
* UNTIL 615 AM CST
* AT 309 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY
RAIN OVER NORTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE. RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 2
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE OCURRED IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL
INCH OF RAINFALL COULD OCCUR OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS UNTIL
THE COLD FRONT PASSES LATER THIS MORNING.
A FLASH 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 3669 8816 3581 8822 3601 8752 3629 8700
3664 8654 3666 8686The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 12:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 33 min |
| Jan 24, 3:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more | 54 min |
| Jan 24, 4:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Davidson, Giles, Hickman, Jackson, Lawrence and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 5:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 7:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 12:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence, Lincoln, Wayne | 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.