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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 2004, 6:06 PM CST for Clay County, Jackson County, Smith County, Tennessee. It was in force for 114 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
- Mar 5, 2004, 6:06 PM CST (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2004, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Smith County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 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 060009
FFWBNA
TNC027-087-159-060200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
606 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CLAY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
JACKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
SMITH COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
* UNTIL 800 PM CST
* AT 554 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A
LINE FROM NEAR CELINA TO CARTHAGE. RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES
OF NEARLY TWO INCHES PER HOUR ALONG AND NEAR THE LINE.
* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 800 PM CST INCLUDE...
GORDONSVILLE...GAINESBORO...CELINA...CARTHAGE
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.
LAT...LON 3662 8529 3649 8547 3625 8554 3627 8581
3618 8584 3609 8606 3631 8612 3642 8601
3643 8585 3662 8575
$$
05The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Wayne | 52 min |
| Mar 5, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 46 min |
| Mar 5, 8:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Giles | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 45 min |
| Mar 5, 9:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy, Warren | 43 min |
| Mar 5, 9:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 32 min |
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.