Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 2003, 5:50 PM CDT for Clay County, Jackson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 115 min. 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 7, 2003, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, TN, Jackson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KOHX 072252 FFWBNA TNC027-087-080045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 550 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CELINA JACKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GAINESBORO * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 548 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF CELINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO NOTED JUST NORTH OF GAINESBORO. 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 3641 8578 3631 8561 3659 8540 3659 8573 $$ 21
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KOHX 072356 FFSBNA TNC027-087-080045- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 656 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR CLAY AND JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM... THOUGH THE RAINFALL HAS WEAKENED IN INTENSITY...ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND SCATTERED HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL DRIFT SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE WARNED AREA LATER THIS EVENING. THUS FAR...RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT AROUND 1 1/2 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN ACROSS A GOOD PORTION OF EASTERN CLAY COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF CELINA. IF THE STORMS ACROSS KY CAN HOLD TOGETHER THIS EVENING...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD PRESENT FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...FLASH FLOOD DEATHS ARE THE NUMBER ONE WEATHER RELATED KILLER. PLEASE AVOID BECOMING A STATISTIC. IN ADDITION...REMEMBER THAT FLASH FLOODING CAN STILL OCCUR FOR SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE RAINFALL SUBSIDES OR ENDS. $$ 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Clay | 2 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.