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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 1, 2011, 5:32 AM CST for Cumberland County, Fentress 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
- Jan 1, 2011, 5:32 AM CST (11:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2011, 8:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:33 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
755
WGUS54 KOHX 011132
FFWOHX
TNC035-049-011430-
/O.NEW.KOHX.FF.W.0004.110101T1132Z-110101T1430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
532 AM CST SAT JAN 1 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CROSSVILLE...
FENTRESS COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN...
* UNTIL 830 AM CST/930 AM EST/
* AT 523 AM CST...HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING OVER CUMBERLAND AND FENTRESS
COUNTIES. RAINFALL TOTALS OF TWO AND A HALF INCHES HAD FALLEN ACROSS
CUMBERLAND AND FENTRESS COUNTIES DURING THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS...AND
MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO FALL OVER THIS SAME AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FAIRFIELD
GLADE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3633 8477 3629 8479 3627 8487 3616 8489
3609 8479 3591 8467 3582 8476 3577 8491
3575 8502 3580 8525 3587 8521 3597 8526
3611 8523 3611 8514 3620 8508 3631 8512
3650 8508 3658 8495 3653 8473 3640 8465
$$
BOYDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 12:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jan 1, 1:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Jan 1, 1:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 3 hr |
| Jan 1, 9:34 AM CST | River Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford | 14 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.