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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2013, 5:25 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Smith County, Tennessee. It was in force for 6 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
- Jul 4, 2013, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2013, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties DeKalb County, TN, Smith County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
563
WGUS54 KOHX 042225
FFWOHX
TNC041-159-050430-
/O.NEW.KOHX.FF.W.0021.130704T2225Z-130705T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
525 PM CDT THU JUL 4 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SMITH COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
WESTERN DE KALB COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 522 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW RAIN AFFECTING
MOST OF THE WARNED AREA, WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. RAIN GAUGE REPORTS OF 5 TO 6 INCHES ARE
COMMON. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HAS REPORTED SEVERAL AREAS ALREADY
AFFECTED BY RISING WATER, AND CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO
RISE DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...CARTHAGE...
SMITHVILLE AND GORDONSVILLE.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3641 8583 3629 8584 3624 8581 3613 8581
3611 8579 3585 8577 3585 8589 3590 8594
3607 8605 3629 8613 3639 8602 3640 8599
3642 8597
$$
ROSEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 11:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Bedford | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 1:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Cannon, Davidson, Rutherford, Smith, Williamson, Wilson | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Bedford, Giles, Marshall, Maury | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 4:18 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OHX | Giles | 18 hr |
| Jul 4, 4:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Putnam, Smith and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:12 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | OHX | Bedford | 15 hr |
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.