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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Nashville, TN

June 15, 2003Marshall County, Tennessee

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.

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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2003-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 856 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2003-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -39 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 7:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles, Lawrence, Maury118 min
Jun 15, 8:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCheatham, Dickson, Humphreys, Robertson3 hr
Jun 16, 11:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCumberland2 hr
Jun 16, 1:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXBenton, Houston, Stewart3 hr
Jun 16, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDavidson, Sumner, Wilson28 min
Jun 16, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXLewis, Wayne43 min
Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Marshall51 min
Jun 16, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon, Coffee, Warren47 min
Jun 16, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb, Putnam, White34 min
Jun 16, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXClay, Jackson, Overton, Putnam47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2003Every 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.