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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2008, 12:36 PM CDT for 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
- May 27, 2008, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2008, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Lawrence County, TN, Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 271736
FFWOHX
TNC099-181-272030-
/O.NEW.KOHX.FF.W.0002.080527T1736Z-080527T2030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1236 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LAWRENCE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG...
WAYNE COUNTY IN TENNESSEE...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO...
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 1232 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR COLLINWOOD...OR 8 MILES
SOUTH OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
LORETTO
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3538 8801 3541 8753 3540 8753 3541 8751
3542 8724 3503 8724 3503 8798
TIME...MOT...LOC 1736Z 264DEG 25KT 3521 8773
$$
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 25 min |
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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.