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Areal Flood Advisory 3, NWS Nashville, TN

February 26, 20216 counties in Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this areal flood advisory at Feb 26, 2021, 10:44 PM CST for 6 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 26, 2021, 10:44 PM CST (04:44 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 2021, 1:45 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Nashville, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Perry County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:46 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 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2021-02-27Temperature 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2021-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 283 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Feb 26, 10:40 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 10:40 PM CST, 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 2:50 AM CSTFlood WatchOHXBedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 32 more51 hr
Feb 27, 5:48 PM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryOHXDavidson4 days

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Tennessee, 2021Every areal flood advisory in 2021

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.