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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Nashville, TN

February 14, 2003Lawrence County, Lewis County, Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 2003, 6:03 PM CST for Lawrence County, Lewis County, Wayne 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: Feb 14, 2003, 6:03 PM CST (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Feb 14, 2003, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Wayne County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 575 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 562 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 150009
FFWBNA
TNC099-101-181-150300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
603 PM CST FRI FEB 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG
  LEWIS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HOHENWALD
  WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 600 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL        
CONTINUING TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE. RAINFALL         
TOTALS HAVE EXCEEDED THREE INCHES AT SOME LOCATIONS IN NORTHERN      
WAYNE AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES. 

* AN ADDITIONAL ONE INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND WILL 
PROLONG THE FLOODING. THE ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ENOUGH 
RUNOFF TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS AND IN 
LOW LYING AREAS. 

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 3536 8798 3507 8790 3505 8725 3563 8737
          3552 8766

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 14, 7:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence and 9 more	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.