Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Nashville, TN
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.
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 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.
- 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
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
$$
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 44 min |
| Jul 26, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 3:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Fentress, Pickett | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 3:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Van Buren, White | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Fentress, Pickett | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2004Every 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.