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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Nashville, TN

June 2, 2004Cumberland County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT for Cumberland 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: Jun 2, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2004, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cumberland County, TN

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 030320
FFWBNA
TNC035-030615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1015 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1006 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL       
  TOTALS HAVE ALREDY ACCUMULATED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY WITH MORE      
  THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER THE COUNTY            
  THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 115 AM CDT INCLUDE...
  ISOLINE...LAKE TANSI...FAIRFIELD GLADE...CROSSVILLE

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

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

LAT...LON 3615 8483 3586 8465 3580 8520 3614 8517

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	51 min
Jun 2, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	44 min
Jun 2, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	57 min
Jun 2, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys, Perry	46 min
Jun 2, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	29 min
Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	55 min
Jun 2, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Wilson	61 min
Jun 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	46 min
Jun 2, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	47 min
Jun 2, 8:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Wilson	2 hr
Jun 2, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson	46 min
Jun 2, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	45 min
Jun 2, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Wilson	57 min
Jun 2, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	47 min
Jun 2, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	38 min
Jun 2, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	33 min

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.