Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 7, 2004, 2:35 AM CST for 6 counties in 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 7, 2004, 2:35 AM CST (08:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 2004, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Benton County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Perry County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Wayne County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 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 070839
FFWOHX
TNC005-083-085-135-161-181-071130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
235 AM CST TUE DEC 7 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BENTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
HOUSTON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
PERRY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
STEWART COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES CAMDEN...ERIN...WAVERLY...LINDEN...DOVER
AND WAYNESBORO.
* UNTIL 530 AM CST
* AT 230 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. RAINFALL
RATES ARE APPROACHING ONE INCH PER HOUR. GIVEN THE SATURATED GROUND
IN THIS AREA...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE.
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 3504 8802 3504 8760 3553 8768 3565 8768
3576 8773 3596 8773 3598 8759 3630 8758
3668 8767 3671 8810 3621 8806 3608 8820
3586 8816 3583 8801
$$
JLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 3:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Montgomery, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 3:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Maury | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Clay, Jackson, Macon, Marshall, Rutherford and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 5:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith and 1 more | 25 min |
| Dec 7, 5:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith and 1 more | 19 min |
| Dec 7, 5:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Dec 7, 6:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Pickett, Putnam | 3 hr |
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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.