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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Nashville, TN

July 26, 2004Van Buren County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT for Van Buren 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
Jul 26, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
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), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 123 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 262116
FFWBNA
TNC175-270015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 307 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AT LEAST 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
  OVER THE LAST 3 HOURS. HARDEST HIT AREAS ARE NEAR BLEDSOE STATE FOREST
  AND FALL CREEK FALLS STATE PARK. EXTENSIVE RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER
  THE AREA WEST OF VAN BUREN COUNTY WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAINFALL
  LIKELY IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. FLOODING CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY
  WORSEN.

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.

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME 
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGH 
GROUND.

LAT...LON 3574 8549 3557 8542 3565 8506 3587 8519

$$

JLM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 2:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXVan Buren119 min
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, 5:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXFentress, Pickett3 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.