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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Nashville, TN

September 13, 202022 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flash flood watch at Sep 13, 2020, 4:07 AM CDT for 22 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Sep 13, 2020, 5:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 13, 2020, 4:07 AM CDT (09:07 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 13, 2020, 5:00 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 13, 2020, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Flood severity: None

All 22 counties

Bedford County, TN, Clay County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 13, 1:01 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 1:01 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 12, 5:02 AM CDT, 23 hours 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 13, 6:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Hickman, Lewis, Perry, Wayne	3 hr
Sep 13, 7:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson	3 hr
Sep 13, 7:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson	6 hr
Sep 13, 7:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Hickman, Lewis, Maury, Williamson	113 min
Sep 13, 8:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson	10 hr
Sep 13, 9:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	119 min
Sep 13, 9:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	8 hr
Sep 13, 9:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Sumner, Trousdale	3 hr
Sep 13, 10:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson	7 hr
Sep 13, 10:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson	13 hr
Sep 13, 11:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson	14 hr
Sep 13, 11:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Wayne	4 hr
Sep 13, 11:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall, Maury	3 hr
Sep 13, 3:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Wayne	4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.