Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 103, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 7, 2004, 6:41 AM CST for 4 counties in 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
- Dec 7, 2004, 6:41 AM CST (12:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 2004, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fentress County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 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 071244
FFWOHX
TNC049-133-137-141-071545-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
641 AM CST TUE DEC 7 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
FENTRESS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
OVERTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
EASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF JAMESTOWN...LIVINGSTON...BYRDSTOWN AND
COOKEVILLE.
* UNTIL 945 AM CST
* AT 634 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL RATES ARE NEAR
1.25 INCHES PER HOUR IN SOME AREAS. THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING
OF LOW LYING AREAS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS WELL AS CITY STREETS IN
URBAN AREAS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3630 8548 3609 8552 3603 8527 3621 8494
3638 8471 3660 8474 3659 8528
$$
JLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 2:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Perry, Stewart, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 3:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Montgomery, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 3:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Maury | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Clay, Jackson, Macon, Marshall, Rutherford and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 5:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith and 1 more | 25 min |
| Dec 7, 5:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith and 1 more | 19 min |
| Dec 7, 5:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Putnam | 3 hr |
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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.