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Flood Watch 3, NWS Nashville, TN

February 9, 202020 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this flood watch at Feb 9, 2020, 3:00 AM CST for 20 counties in Tennessee. It took effect at Feb 10, 2020, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 9, 2020, 3:00 AM CST (09:00 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 10, 2020, 6:00 AM CST
Expired
Feb 11, 2020, 9:38 AM CST
In force
28 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Flood severity
None

Counties Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Overton County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 305 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2020-02-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2020-02-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 9, 3:41 PM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryOHXSumner, Trousdale, Wilson11 hr
Feb 9, 3:47 PM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryOHXHickman11 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Tennessee, 2020Every flood watch in 2020

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.