Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT for Marshall County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 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
- Jun 15, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marshall County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 856 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOHX 160106 FFWBNA TNC117-160300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 800 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MARSHALL COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 754 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY. RADAR INDICATED OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA IN THE PAST 2 HOURS. 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 3553 8703 3535 8703 3532 8673 3556 8673 $$ JLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Maury | 118 min |
| Jun 15, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Humphreys, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Stewart | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Wayne | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam, White | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Overton, Putnam | 47 min |
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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.