Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Nashville, TN

Issued

Aug 6, 2003, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)

Expired

Aug 6, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Nashville, TN

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Williamson County, TN

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS54 KOHX 061908
FFWBNA
TNC187-062200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
203 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FRANKLIN

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 200 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER MUCH OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES HAVE
  BEEN 2 TO 2.5 INCHES PER HOUR. WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT
  TRACE CREEK IN NORTHERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY AND BEAR CREEK IN THE 
  SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY HAVE RECEIVED THE MOST RAIN. MORE HEAVY 
  RAIN WILL ENTER WILLIAMSON COUNTY FROM NORTHERN HICKMAN COUNTY.

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 3602 8715 3586 8721 3572 8670 3603 8667

$$
END/ORCHANIAN

000 
WGUS74 KOHX 062233
FFSBNA
TNC081-187-062300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
533 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR HICKMAN AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES HAVE
EXPIRED...

THE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT BROUGHT THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING TO
HICKMAN COUNTY AND WILLIAMSON COUNTY HAS NOW MOVED SOUTH OF THE
AREA. THEREFORE...THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING NO LONGER
EXISTS.

HOWEVER...WITH THE ONGOING POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TO STILL OCCUR...THE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND
MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE.

LAT...LON 3658 8577 3645 8561 3656 8496 3693 8539

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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.