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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Nashville, TN

February 15, 2003Cumberland County, Fentress County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 2003, 10:12 PM CST for Cumberland County, Fentress County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 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
Feb 15, 2003, 10:12 PM CST (04:12 UTC)
Expired
Feb 16, 2003, 2:00 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 2003-02-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 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 160417
FFWBNA
TNC035-049-160800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1012 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  SOUTHERN FENTRESS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 200 AM CST

* AT 1004 PM CST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING MODERATE 
  TO HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CUMBERLAND COUNTY AND SOUTHERN FENTRESS     
  COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES MORE THAN ONE AND ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN    
  HAS FALLEN IN SOME AREAS THIS EVENING. THE GROUND IS ALREADY       
  SATURATED FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL.

* MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL LATE 
  THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 1 INCH ARE POSSIBLE.
  THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING     
  AREAS. 

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 3587 8522 3582 8487 3594 8475 3608 8497
          3633 8488 3635 8498

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 7:12 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningOHXFranklin, Grundy4 hr

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.