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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2004, 5:35 AM CDT for Maury County, Williamson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 100 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
- Sep 2, 2004, 5:35 AM CDT (10:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2004, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 100 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Maury County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 021045 FFWBNA TNC119-187-021215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 535 AM CDT THU SEP 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MAURY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBIA WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FRANKLIN * UNTIL 715 AM CDT * AT 533 AM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW...SLOW NORTHWARD MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ADVANCING INTO MAURY AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES. BASED ON SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS AND DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR... THESE STORMS WERE BEGINNING TO INTERSECT A WEST TO EAST BAND OF STORMS ALREADY IN PLACE ACROSS MAURY AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES. AS A RESULT OF THIS INTERSECTION AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL EXIST ACROSS MAURY AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES THROUGH 715 AM CDT. SATELLITE ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES RANGE FROM ONE AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR. CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RISE QUICKLY ALONG WITH PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3552 8725 3549 8696 3594 8667 3599 8716 $$ BOYD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 33 min |
| Sep 2, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 85 min |
| Sep 2, 5:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson | 2 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.