Alert archive / Tennessee / Flood Watches in 2009
Flood Watch 7, NWS Nashville, TN
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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 6:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 3 hr |
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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.