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Areal Flood Advisory 97, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 19, 2021, 6:30 PM CDT for Giles County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2021, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2021, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Giles County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Aug 19, 6:00 PM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 6:00 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, Wilson | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 7:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Rutherford, Warren | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 8:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Warren | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | DeKalb, Grundy, Putnam, Van Buren, Warren, White | 63 min |
| Aug 18, 9:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cumberland, Putnam, Van Buren, White | 79 min |
| Aug 19, 6:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Warren | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.