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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Nashville, TN

May 5, 2003Cumberland County, White County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 2003, 4:36 AM CDT for Cumberland County, White County, 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2003, 4:36 AM CDT (09:36 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2003, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cumberland County, TN, White County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1192 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 530 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 050939
FFWBNA
TNC035-185-051230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
436 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  WHITE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 730 AM CDT

* AT 431 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
  RAIN OVER MUCH OF WHITE AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES. RAINFALL          
  ESTIMATES ALSO SHOW A LARGE SWATH OF 1 INCH OR MORE ACCUMULATION   
  PER HOUR OVER WHITE COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION MAXIMUM WILL SHIFT   
  EASTWARD AS STORMS CONTINUE OVER CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

* SOME PLACES INCLUDED IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE SPARTA AND         
  CROSSVILLE.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH 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 3600 8562 3576 8560 3588 8472 3618 8488
$$
ROSE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KOHX 051102
FFSBNA
TNC035-185-051230-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
600 AM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WHITE AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES
UNTIL 730 AM CDT...

CITIES AFFECTED INCLUDE  SPARTA...CROSSVILLE

AT 600 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND  
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. 

.A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OF OCCURRING.
IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD
WATERS. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
IMMEDIATELY.

.DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OF WATER TO FLOAT A VEHICLE.

.STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION.

$$

04

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	42 min
May 4, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	31 min
May 4, 11:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	60 min
May 4, 11:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	16 min
May 4, 11:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	43 min
May 4, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	36 min
May 5, 12:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	63 min
May 5, 12:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry	44 min
May 5, 12:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	25 min
May 5, 12:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry	38 min
May 5, 12:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Perry	39 min
May 5, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston	46 min
May 5, 12:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	56 min
May 5, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	20 min
May 5, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	41 min
May 5, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	34 min
May 5, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	20 min
May 5, 1:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	24 min
May 5, 1:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner	35 min
May 5, 1:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	28 min
May 5, 1:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	31 min
May 5, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	28 min
May 5, 1:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	46 min
May 5, 2:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	28 min
May 5, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman	35 min
May 5, 2:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford	40 min
May 5, 2:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wilson	24 min
May 5, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	44 min
May 5, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman	48 min
May 5, 2:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb	29 min
May 5, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	42 min
May 5, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	31 min
May 5, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, Rutherford	45 min
May 5, 3:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	3 hr
May 5, 3:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Maury	44 min
May 5, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	White	34 min
May 5, 3:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Warren	48 min
May 5, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Wilson	32 min
May 5, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Putnam	42 min
May 5, 3:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	29 min
May 5, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee	50 min
May 5, 3:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	48 min
May 5, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	41 min
May 5, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, Warren	52 min
May 5, 4:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	33 min
May 5, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	47 min
May 5, 5:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	19 min
May 5, 5:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	3 hr
May 5, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	50 min
May 5, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	46 min
May 5, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	48 min
May 5, 6:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	25 min
May 5, 7:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Putnam	30 min
May 5, 7:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	38 min
May 5, 7:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	29 min
May 5, 7:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	51 min
May 5, 7:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	28 min
May 5, 7:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	27 min
May 5, 7:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	38 min
May 5, 8:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	14 min
May 5, 8:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin, Grundy	42 min
May 5, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lewis, Perry	51 min
May 5, 9:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Perry	43 min
May 5, 9:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	46 min
May 5, 10:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	42 min
May 5, 10:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	40 min
May 5, 10:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	47 min
May 5, 11:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lincoln, Marshall, Moore	44 min
May 5, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	44 min
May 5, 11:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	41 min
May 5, 12:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford	81 min
May 5, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	51 min
May 5, 12:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee, Franklin, Grundy	59 min
May 5, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Smith, Wilson	26 min
May 5, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	54 min
May 5, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton	57 min
May 5, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	38 min
May 5, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson	46 min
May 5, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Humphreys	52 min
May 5, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Perry	47 min

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.