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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2004, 5:49 PM CDT for Fentress County, Pickett 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, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 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 Knoxville radar (KMRX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 262251 FFWBNA TNC049-137-270145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 549 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 NORTHEASTERN PICKETT COUNTY IN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 507 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER FENTRESS AND EASTERN PICKETT COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE PAST 3 HOURS WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH EXPECTED BEFORE RAINFALL DIMINISHES. 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 3630 8514 3618 8486 3666 8466 3671 8495 $$ JLM
The 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, 3:25 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 |
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.