Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2004, 4:17 PM CDT for Putnam County, Tennessee. It was in force for 118 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
- Jul 5, 2004, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Putnam County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KOHX 052121
FFWBNA
TNC141-052315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
417 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PUTNAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 410 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS
PUTNAM COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE BAXTER AREA.
IN ADDITION...WEATHER SPOTTERS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING IN BAXTER WHERE SEVERAL ROADS WERE CLOSED.
* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 615 PM CDT INCLUDE...
MONTEREY...COOKEVILLE...BAXTER...ALGOOD
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED
ROADWAYS. IF YOU APPROACH A WATER COVERED ROAD...TURN AROUND...DONT
DROWN.
LAT...LON 3615 8516 3603 8528 3612 8578 3624 8579
3621 8560 3630 8548
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Macon, Smith | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 13 min |
| Jul 5, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Pickett | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam, White | 39 min |
| Jul 5, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 4:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Pickett | 113 min |
| Jul 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Warren | 24 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.