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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Nashville, TN

July 26, 2004Van Buren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2004, 2:01 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Tennessee. It was in force for 119 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 26, 2004, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Van Buren County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2004-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 244 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2004-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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 261901
FFWBNA
TNC175-262100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
201 PM CDT MON JUL 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  VAN BUREN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPENCER

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 157 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF SPENCER...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

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 3568 8558 3581 8541 3580 8533 3582 8528
      3578 8526 3574 8528 3573 8526 3557 8545
      3557 8549

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford48 min
Jul 26, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford, Rutherford44 min
Jul 26, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCannon27 min
Jul 26, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXDeKalb27 min
Jul 26, 3:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXFentress, Pickett2 hr
Jul 26, 3:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXCumberland, Van Buren, White3 hr
Jul 26, 4:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXVan Buren3 hr
Jul 26, 5:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXFentress, Pickett3 hr

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.