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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Nashville, TN

September 16, 2004Giles County, Lawrence County, Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 2004, 5:01 PM CDT for Giles County, Lawrence County, Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 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: Sep 16, 2004, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Wayne County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 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 162206
FFWBNA
TNC055-099-181-170200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
501 PM CDT THU SEP 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PULASKI
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG
  WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING OVER GILES AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES. RAINFALL RATES 
  OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED AS HEAVIER BANDS MOVE   
  THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING. 

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 3543 8695 3504 8685 3503 8798 3547 8792

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KOHX 170208
FFSBNA
TNC055-099-181-170230-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
902 PM CDT THU SEP 16 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GILES...LAWRENCE AND WAYNE COUNTIES
WILL EXPIRE AT 900 PM CDT...

AT 9 PM...RADAR SHOWED BANDS OF MODERATE SHOWERS IN LAWRENCE AND 
GILES COUNTIES...WITH LIGHTER SHOWERS IN WAYNE COUNTY AS THE BANDS 
SPIRAL SOUTH INTO NORTH ALABAMA. ALTHOUGH THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH 
FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED FOR NOW... ADDITIONAL SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE 
OVERNIGHT. SOME WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SATURATED 
SOILS AND STRONG WINDS WILL CAUSE SOME TREES TO FALL...AND THERE 
WILL BE SOME POWER OUTAGES.  

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR 
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.


LAT...LON 3543 8695 3504 8685 3503 8798 3547 8792

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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.