Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 97, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 7, 2004, 3:03 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, 3:03 AM CST (09:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 2004, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cheatham County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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 070905
FFWOHX
TNC021-043-081-101-125-147-071200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
303 AM CST TUE DEC 7 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CHEATHAM COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
DICKSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
HICKMAN COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
LEWIS COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ASHLAND CITY...DICKSON...CENTERVILLE...
HOHENWALD...CLARKSVILLE AND SPRINGFIELD
* UNTIL 600 AM CST
* AT 258 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA WITH RAINFALL RATES APPROACHING
ONE INCH PER HOUR. GIVEN THE SATURATED GROUND...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 3544 8761 3546 8726 3563 8733 3570 8724
3605 8718 3606 8706 3637 8690 3653 8664
3665 8664 3665 8699 3668 8763 3637 8762
3629 8755 3619 8759 3597 8756 3590 8771
3569 8775 3561 8766
$$
JLMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 2:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys, Perry, Stewart, Wayne | 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 |
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.