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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Nashville, TN

May 10, 2004Bedford County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2004, 5:41 PM CDT for Bedford County, Tennessee. It was in force for 109 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: May 10, 2004, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 109 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bedford County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 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 102242
FFWBNA
TNC003-110030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
541 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BEDFORD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 540 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST SOUTHEAST OF 
  SHELBYVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 10 MPH.

* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 745 PM CDT INCLUDE...
  SHELBYVILLE

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION. TO REPORT FLOODING...CONTACT LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT.

LAT...LON 3537 8655 3545 8666 3559 8652 3565 8643
          3562 8638 3566 8635 3562 8624 3550 8628
          3540 8641 3536 8648

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Maury	59 min
May 10, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Van Buren, Warren	60 min
May 10, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, White	52 min
May 10, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	34 min
May 10, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	30 min
May 10, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	35 min
May 10, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	30 min
May 10, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	49 min
May 10, 6:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon	111 min
May 10, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	51 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.