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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Nashville, TN

May 7, 20037 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 2003, 12:38 AM CDT for 7 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 2003, 12:38 AM CDT (05:38 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2003, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cannon County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 00:00Z on 2003-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1519 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 00:00Z on 2003-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
1519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 070542
FFWBNA
TNC015-041-149-175-177-185-189-070845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1238 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CANNON, DE KALB, RUTHERFORD, VAN BUREN, WARREN, WHITE, AND WILSON  
  COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE.

* UNTIL 345 AM CDT

* AT 1232 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF 
  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING     
  INTO THE WARNED AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST. 

* SOME CITIES IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE WOODBURY, SMITHVILLE,       
  MURFREESBORO, SPENCER, MCMINNVILLE, SPARTA, AND LEBANON.

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 3629 8653 3568 8671 3557 8543 3577 8525
          3602 8527 3612 8608 3631 8613
$$
ROSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXFranklin, Lincoln29 min
May 6, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Giles, Marshall33 min
May 6, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee, Franklin, Moore46 min
May 6, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWayne39 min
May 6, 11:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence and 7 more3 hr
May 6, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson31 min
May 7, 12:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart3 hr
May 7, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee, Grundy, Warren32 min
May 7, 12:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXStewart41 min
May 7, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Williamson39 min
May 7, 12:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Williamson3 hr
May 7, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Humphreys, Perry33 min
May 7, 1:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXDickson, Hickman3 hr
May 7, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMontgomery48 min
May 7, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Sumner50 min
May 7, 1:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXRobertson, Sumner3 hr
May 7, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Perry31 min
May 7, 1:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Wilson54 min
May 7, 1:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXMacon, Smith, Trousdale3 hr
May 7, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Robertson, Williamson42 min
May 7, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXSumner43 min
May 7, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMacon, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson47 min
May 7, 2:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, Rutherford, Williamson43 min
May 7, 2:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Putnam, Smith and 1 more57 min
May 7, 3:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence and 8 more3 hr
May 7, 3:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland, Fentress, Overton, Pickett55 min
May 7, 3:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Van Buren, Warren, White53 min
May 7, 3:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee, Grundy48 min
May 7, 5:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Cumberland, Davidson and 22 more6 hr
May 7, 5:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Wayne33 min
May 7, 5:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Maury42 min
May 7, 5:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry50 min
May 7, 6:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman and 8 more6 hr
May 7, 6:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWarren6 hr
May 7, 6:47 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXBedford, Rutherford43 min
May 7, 6:58 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXMarshall, Williamson32 min
May 7, 7:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman44 min
May 7, 7:35 AM CDTTornado WarningOHXCannon, DeKalb, Wilson25 min
May 7, 7:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury, Williamson48 min
May 7, 8:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPutnam45 min
May 7, 8:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXRutherford42 min
May 7, 8:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCheatham, Davidson38 min
May 7, 8:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall48 min
May 7, 8:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, White43 min
May 7, 9:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee30 min
May 7, 9:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford42 min
May 7, 10:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 25 more5 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.