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Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Nashville, TN

December 6, 2004Giles County, Lawrence County, Wayne County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 6, 2004, 2:29 PM CST for Giles County, Lawrence County, Wayne 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
Dec 6, 2004, 2:29 PM CST (20:29 UTC)
Expired
Dec 6, 2004, 5:30 PM CST
In force
3 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), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 2004-12-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2004-12-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 304 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
304 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
355 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KOHX 062041
FFWOHX
TNC055-099-181-062330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
229 PM CST MON DEC 6 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 530 PM CST

* AT 224 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING ACROSS WAYNE...LAWRENCE AND GILES COUNTY
  IN SOUTHWEST MIDDLE TENNESSEE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF TWO
  INCHES HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN THE SOUTHERN AREAS OF THE WARNED COUNTIES.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WAYNESBORO...
  COLLINWOOD...LAWRENCEBURG AND PULASKI.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING IN THE WARNED AREA. THE WARM FRONT IS STILL SOUTH OF THE
MID STATE AND NOT EXPECTED TO LIFT NORTHWARD UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 3489 8821 3497 8678 3545 8686 3545 8818
$$
BOYD

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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.