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Flood Watch 7, NWS Nashville, TN

September 19, 200931 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flood watch at Sep 19, 2009, 2:39 AM CDT for 31 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 45 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 19, 2009, 2:39 AM CDT (07:39 UTC)
Expired
Sep 21, 2009, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
45 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Flood severity
None
All 31 counties

Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 00:00Z on 2009-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1491 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2009-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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 Sep 18, 3:07 PM CDT, 11 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 3:07 PM CDT, 11 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
307 PM CDT FRI SEP 18 2009

.DISCUSSION...
FORECAST REASONING WILL BE BASED ON A MODEL SOLUTIONS COMPROMISE
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

CURRENTLY...SFC LOW STILL POSITIONED ACROSS CNTRL LA WITH AN INVERTED
SFC TROUGH MAINLY ACROSS W PORTIONS OF MID STATE. UPPER LEVEL LOW
ACROSS SE LA...WITH SCT SHWRS AND ISOLATED TSTMS...MAINLY ALONG AND
WEST OF INTERSTATE 65.

FORECAST QUANDARIES...WITH GENERALLY AT THE MOST A QUARTER TO AS
MUCH AS A HALF INCH OF RAIN EXPECTED AFTER 7 PM THRU THE REMINDER
OF THE NIGHT...AND WITH EXPECTED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO ONE
INCH ACROSS MAINLY SW PORTIONS OF THE MID STATE BY SAT EVENING...
WILL AT THIS TIME LET THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH EXPIRE AS OF 7 PM
THIS EVENING. AM NOT CANCELING AT THIS TIME WITH SOME STORMS THIS
AFTERNOON STILL PRODUCING ONE HALF TO AROUND ONE INCH OF RAINFALL
ACROSS THE MID STATE...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 65.
THIS SHOULD BEGIN TO DISSIPATE IN COVERAGE AREA AFTER 7 PM. WILL
INCLUDE A LATE AFTERNOON FORECAST PERIOD IN ZONES TO DEAL WITH
ONGOING CONVECTION.

MODELS CONTINUING TO SHOW MOVEMENT OF SFC LOW TO THE N...BEING NEAR
THE MO BOOTHEEL...WITH SFC FRONT FORMING TO OUR S AND MOVING N
ACROSS THE MID STATE AS A WARM FRONT...POSITIONED ACROSS S KY...ON
SUN. UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BECOME DIFFUSE BY THIS EVENING...AND
WILL JUST CARRY SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS TONIGHT.

DESPITE UPPER LEVEL LOW BECOMING DIFFUSE...DEEP MOISTURE ASSOCIATED
WITH S TO SWLY FLOW IS ANTICIPATED TO STILL CONTINUE THRU THE
FORECAST PERIOD AS UPPER LEVEL CLOSED LOW EVENTUALLY DEVELOPS ACROSS
THE CNTRL PLAINS BY LATE NEXT WEEK AND A COLD FRONT FINALLY
APPROACHES THE AREA BY NEXT WEEKEND.

WITH ALL THIS IN MIND...WILL GO WITH LIKELY SHWRS AND A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF TSTMS THRU SUN EVENING. WILL CONTINUE A GENERAL TREND OF
SCT SHWRS/TSTMS THRU NEXT WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS SUN THRU 00Z WED COULD AGAIN BE IN THE RANGE OF
AROUND ONE TO AROUND TWO INCHES EACH DAY...WITH TOTAL RAINFALL
AMOUNTS DURING THIS PERIOD OF UP TO FOUR INCHES OR MORE POSSIBLE.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED AGAIN LATER THIS
WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.

AS FOR TEMPS...LOOKING AT LOWS...WILL REMAIN IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S
FOR LOWS THRU AT LEAST THE FIRST HALF OF THE FORECAST PERIOD...WITH
A SLIGHT COOLING TREND INTO THE LOWER TO MID 60S BY NEXT WEEKEND.
AS FOR HIGHS...WILL START IN THE MID 70S TO LOWER 80S FOR HIGHS
OVER THE WEEKEND...WITH A GRADUAL WARMING TREND INTO THE UPPER 70S
TO LOWER 80S NEXT WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND. THIS WILL PUT US NEAR OR
SLIGHTLY ABOVE CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMS FOR HIGHS/LOWS THRU THE FORECAST
PERIOD.
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
NASHVILLE      67  79  68  79 /  20  60  60  70
CLARKSVILLE    65  79  68  79 /  20  60  60  70
CROSSVILLE     65  75  66  76 /  20  60  60  70
COLUMBIA       68  79  68  79 /  20  60  60  70
LAWRENCEBURG   69  80  68  80 /  20  60  60  70
WAVERLY        67  79  68  80 /  20  60  60  70
&&

.OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR TNZ005>011-022>034-
056>066-075-077>080-093>095.
&&

31/JBW
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 18, 8:32 PM CDT, 6 hours 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 6:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHXGiles3 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Tennessee, 2009Every flood watch in 2009

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.