Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT for Perry 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
- Jun 3, 2012, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2012, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Perry County, TN, Wayne County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
298
WGUS54 KOHX 040130
FFWOHX
TNC135-181-040430-
/O.NEW.KOHX.FF.W.0007.120604T0130Z-120604T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
830 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 829 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA. RADAR INDICATES MORE THAN 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
WITHIN THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY
PRODUCE ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN.
* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LINDEN AND WAYNESBORO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3549 8799 3553 8798 3561 8804 3566 8802
3573 8803 3572 8777 3550 8771 3548 8772
3548 8770 3528 8764 3535 8801 3539 8803
3541 8798 3542 8802 3546 8805
$$
13The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Perry, Wayne | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Perry | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lewis, Maury, Perry | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis, Perry | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 8:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Maury | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 12 min |
| Jun 3, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Giles | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 10:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lewis, Maury, Perry | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 11:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Lawrence | 62 min |
Nearby
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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.