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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Nashville, TN

June 17, 2003Giles County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2003, 2:10 PM CDT for Giles 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 17, 2003, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Giles County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 171915
FFWBNA
TNC055-172115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
210 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PULASKI

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 204 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAINFALL IN SOUTHWEST GILES COUNTY FROM SUGAR CREEK TO MINOR HILL
  TO EASTFORK SHOAL CREEK AND INTO THE RICHLAND CREEK AREA. DOPPLER
  ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE TOTALED JUST UNDER TWO INCHES IN THESE
  AREAS.
 

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER
  THE SAME AREA...FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF GILES COUNTY TO
  MINOR HILL TO JUST NORTH OF ASPEN HILL.

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 3504 8732 3491 8715 3506 8686 3531 8692

$$
BOYD
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland, Putnam, White	49 min
Jun 16, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Fentress	26 min
Jun 16, 9:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Fentress	3 hr
Jun 17, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence	117 min
Jun 17, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	54 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.