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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Nashville, TN

June 25, 2016Lawrence County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2016, 6:18 PM CDT for Lawrence 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 25, 2016, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2016, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lawrence County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

921 
WGUS54 KOHX 252318
FFWOHX
TNC099-260215-
/O.NEW.KOHX.FF.W.0013.160625T2318Z-160626T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
618 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 617 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  LAWRENCEBURG...ETHRIDGE AND LEOMA. 

LAT...LON 3518 8756 3536 8755 3536 8722 3529 8722
      3529 8723 3528 8722 3515 8723

$$

BARNWELL

1 follow-up statement

862 
WGUS74 KOHX 260132
FFSOHX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
832 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2016

TNC099-260140-
/O.CAN.KOHX.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160626T0215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAWRENCE TN-
832 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED, BUT MINOR FLOODING IS STILL EXPECTED UNTIL
WATERS RECEDE OVER THE NEXT HOUR.

LAT...LON 3518 8756 3536 8755 3536 8722 3529 8722
      3529 8723 3528 8722 3515 8723

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Lawrence	3 hr
Jun 25, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Lewis	46 min

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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.