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Flood Watch 1, NWS Nashville, TN

April 21, 200612 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flood watch at Apr 21, 2006, 4:07 PM CDT for 12 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Apr 21, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 21, 2006, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 21, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Apr 22, 2006, 3:39 AM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Flood severity
None

Counties Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 2006-04-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2006-04-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-311 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Apr 21, 3:50 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 3:50 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 21, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry, Wayne71 min
Apr 21, 1:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXHickman, Lawrence, Lewis74 min
Apr 21, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXWayne46 min
Apr 21, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMaury46 min
Apr 21, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXMarshall, Williamson63 min
Apr 21, 3:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXWayne116 min
Apr 21, 3:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCoffee31 min
Apr 21, 3:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXBedford28 min
Apr 21, 6:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXPerry, Wayne56 min
Apr 21, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXVan Buren, Warren36 min
Apr 21, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHXCumberland29 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in Tennessee, 2006Every flood watch in 2006

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.