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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Nashville, TN

May 6, 2003Giles County, Lawrence County, Marshall County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2003, 8:07 AM CDT for Giles County, Lawrence County, Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 113 min. 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 6, 2003, 8:07 AM CDT (13:07 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2003, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Marshall County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2003-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2003-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 061312
FFWBNA
TNC055-099-117-061500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
807 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PULASKI
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEWISBURG

* UNTIL 1000 AM CDT

* AT 802 AM CDT...LOCAL OFFICIALS REPORTED COUNTY-WIDE 
  FLOODING WITH SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
  WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY
  HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS A LARGE PART OF
  SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH 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 3570 8670 3539 8661 3531 8679 3516 8696
          3502 8758 3542 8758 3543 8691 3568 8685

$$
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson45 min
May 5, 7:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Dickson3 hr
May 5, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson33 min
May 5, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford35 min
May 5, 8:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Wilson3 hr
May 5, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson32 min
May 5, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner, Wilson46 min
May 5, 9:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Cannon, Cheatham, Cumberland, Davidson, DeKalb and 9 more3 hr
May 5, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWilson41 min
May 6, 4:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLawrence, Lewis51 min
May 6, 4:32 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXLawrence28 min
May 6, 4:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWayne40 min
May 6, 4:56 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence34 min
May 6, 5:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, Wayne3 hr
May 6, 5:18 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXLawrence, Wayne42 min
May 6, 5:21 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXLincoln, Marshall39 min
May 6, 5:53 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Moore37 min
May 6, 5:58 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence32 min
May 6, 6:32 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Lincoln43 min
May 6, 6:37 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXGiles, Lincoln38 min
May 6, 6:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Coffee4 hr
May 6, 7:13 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXLincoln, Moore32 min
May 6, 7:16 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXLincoln, Moore29 min
May 6, 7:41 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXCoffee34 min
May 6, 7:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXLincoln, Moore3 hr
May 6, 7:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXFranklin3 hr
May 6, 8:17 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXGrundy28 min
May 6, 8:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXGrundy, Warren2 hr
May 6, 9:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence, Marshall117 min
May 6, 10:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Coffee, Lincoln, Moore118 min
May 6, 11:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXFranklin110 min
May 6, 12:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Coffee, Grundy, Warren2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.