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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Nashville, TN

June 15, 20034 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2003, 8:55 PM CDT for 4 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: Jun 15, 2003, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Robertson County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 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 160157
FFWBNA
TNC021-043-085-147-160500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
855 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHERN DICKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  NORTHEASTERN HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  WESTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 847 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN ALONG A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST HUMPHREYS
  COUNTY TO WESTERN ROBERTSON COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS SHOWN
  LITTLE MOVEMENT. RADAR INDICATES SOME LOCATIONS WITH OVER 2 INCHES
  OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR.

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 3621 8773 3603 8761 3634 8680 3661 8699
          3643 8719

$$

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, 8:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Marshall	2 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

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.