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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2004, 3:25 PM CDT for Fentress County, Pickett County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 26, 2004, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fentress County, TN, Pickett County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 262026
FFWBNA
TNC049-137-262230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
325 PM CDT MON JUL 26 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
FENTRESS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN
PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BYRDSTOWN
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 322 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR JAMESTOWN...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR...
NORTHERN FENTRESS COUNTY AT 340 PM CDT
NORTHEASTERN FENTRESS COUNTY AT 350 PM CDT
EASTERN PICKETT COUNTY AT 350 PM CDT
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 3660 8478 3641 8467 3617 8507 3622 8507
3629 8510 3641 8510 3644 8513 3647 8513
3656 8527 3661 8513
$$
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 119 min |
| 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, 3:33 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 |
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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.