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Flash Flood Warning 98, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 7, 2004, 3:27 AM CST for Giles County, Lawrence 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 7, 2004, 3:27 AM CST (09:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 2004, 6:30 AM 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
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 070930
FFWOHX
TNC055-099-071230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
327 AM CST TUE DEC 7 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
GILES COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF OF LAWRENCEBURG AND PULASKI
* UNTIL 630 AM CST
* AT 316 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO THIS AREA. GIVEN THE EXTENSIVE PRIOR
RAINFALL...ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW
LYING AREAS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS WELL AS SOME STREET FLOODING
IN URBAN AREAS.
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 8758 3502 8685 3529 8684 3540 8693
3544 8727 3543 8757
$$
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, 3:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Montgomery, Robertson | 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
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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.