Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2016, 11:53 PM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 112 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2016, 11:53 PM CDT (04:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2016, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Davidson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 12:45 AM CDT | FLOOD | Belinda City, TN | STONERS CREEK HAD RISEN ACROSS SUNNYMEADE DRIVE AND ROAD WAS IMPASSABLE. |
| May 11, 12:45 AM CDT | FLOOD | Mount Juliet, TN | PARKING LOTS AND YARDS WERE FLOODED WITH WATER OVER 1 FOOT DEEP IN SPOTS NEAR CHARLIE DANIELS PARK. |
| May 11, 12:45 AM CDT | FLOOD | Mount Juliet, TN | WATER WAS UP TO 1 FOOT DEEP IN STORE PARKING LOT AT LEBANON ROAD AND NONAVILLE ROAD. |
| May 11, 12:45 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 W Mount Juliet, TN | FLOODED ROAD AT DIVISION STREET AND PASCAL DRIVE. |
| May 11, 1:00 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 W Mount Juliet, TN | FLOODED HOME NEAR PASCAL DRIVE AND DIVISION STREET |
| May 11, 1:00 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Sw Mount Juliet, TN | WATER ENTERING HOME ON JOHN WRIGHT ROAD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 1257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted.
198
WGUS54 KOHX 110453
FFWOHX
TNC037-149-165-189-110645-
/O.NEW.KOHX.FF.W.0003.160511T0453Z-160511T0645Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1153 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
EASTERN DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
WILSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 145 AM CDT
* AT 1151 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
GALLATIN...LEBANON...MADISON...HENDERSONVILLE...LA VERGNE...MOUNT
JULIET...GOODLETTSVILLE...MILLERSVILLE...LAKEWOOD...HERMITAGE...BELINDA
CITY...OLD HICKORY...RURAL HILL...TUCKERS CROSSROADS...PERCY PRIEST
LAKE AND GLADEVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3616 8612 3604 8628 3604 8665 3633 8685
3640 8640
$$
131 follow-up statement
761
WGUS74 KOHX 110555
FFSOHX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
1255 AM CDT WED MAY 11 2016
TNC037-149-165-189-110645-
/O.CON.KOHX.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160511T0645Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RUTHERFORD TN-DAVIDSON TN-SUMNER TN-WILSON TN-
1255 AM CDT WED MAY 11 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL RUTHERFORD...EASTERN DAVIDSON...SOUTHERN SUMNER AND
WILSON COUNTIES...
AT 1255 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP AND PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
GALLATIN...LEBANON...MADISON...HENDERSONVILLE...LA VERGNE...MOUNT JULIET...
GOODLETTSVILLE...MILLERSVILLE...LAKEWOOD...HERMITAGE...BELINDA CITY...OLD
HICKORY...RURAL HILL...TUCKERS CROSSROADS...PERCY PRIEST LAKE AND
GLADEVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3616 8612 3604 8628 3604 8665 3633 8685
3640 8640
$$
SHAMBURGERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Stewart | 43 min |
| May 10, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 24 min |
| May 10, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 29 min |
| May 10, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Stewart | 46 min |
| May 10, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 34 min |
| May 10, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Montgomery, Stewart | 34 min |
| May 10, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 28 min |
| May 10, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 24 min |
| May 10, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Montgomery | 47 min |
| May 10, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Robertson | 44 min |
| May 10, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 27 min |
| May 10, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 32 min |
| May 10, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Robertson | 24 min |
| May 10, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Robertson | 25 min |
| May 10, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner | 33 min |
| May 10, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 46 min |
| May 10, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale | 40 min |
| May 10, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 39 min |
| May 10, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Sumner, Wilson | 34 min |
| May 10, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson | 30 min |
| May 10, 11:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 3 hr |
| May 11, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 27 min |
| May 11, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 31 min |
| May 11, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Wilson | 35 min |
| May 11, 1:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Sumner | 27 min |
| May 11, 1:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | DeKalb | 51 min |
| May 11, 1:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Wilson | 2 hr |
| May 11, 2:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Trousdale | 28 min |
| May 11, 2:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 115 min |
| May 11, 2:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale | 63 min |
| May 11, 3:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Jackson, Smith, Trousdale | 45 min |
| May 11, 4:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale | 117 min |
| May 11, 4:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Sumner | 2 hr |
| May 11, 4:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Jackson, Smith | 40 min |
| May 11, 4:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Davidson | 36 min |
| May 11, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale | 2 hr |
| May 11, 7:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Sumner | 23 min |
| May 11, 7:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Jackson | 24 min |
| May 11, 7:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Jackson, Putnam | 58 min |
| May 11, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Jackson, Macon, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale | 4 hr |
| May 11, 8:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale | 43 min |
| May 11, 8:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale | 4 hr |
| May 11, 8:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cumberland | 32 min |
| May 11, 9:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam | 3 hr |
| May 11, 9:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Putnam | 34 min |
| May 11, 11:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Robertson, Smith, Sumner and 2 more | 6 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.