Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 2003, 3:50 PM CDT for Perry County, 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
- Aug 6, 2003, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Perry County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1148 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOHX 062053 FFWBNA TNC135-070000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 350 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LINDEN * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 344 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OF ABOUT 2 INCHES PER HOUR HAS FALLEN OVER PERRY COUNTY. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. AREAS JUST SOUTH OF LOBELVILLE AND ALSO IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST PART OF PERRY COUNTY HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING IS LIKELY IN THOSE AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS, OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3554 8801 3542 8799 3544 8756 3574 8783 $$ END/ORCHANIAN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KOHX 062248 FFSBNA TNC101-135-070015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 547 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PERRY COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LEWIS COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM... THOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS MOVED SOUTH OF THE WARNING AREA... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 7PM. GIVEN THE HEAVY RAINS THAT OCCURRED EARLIER...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THAT FALLS WITHIN THE VALID TIME OF THE WARNING COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. IF TRAVELING BY CAR...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. KEEP IN MIND THAT FLASH FLOOD DEATHS ARE THE NUMBER ONE WEATHER RELATED KILLER. PLEASE AVOID BECOMING A STATISTIC. $$ 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 10:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Maury | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 12:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lewis | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 2:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Williamson | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Hickman | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 4:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lewis | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.