1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 13, 1:55 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 255 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 2002 CURRENT...MOSTLY CLOUDY DAY W/ OFF-ON SHRA/TSRA MOVING E ACROSS CWA. TEMPS MAINLY IN UPPER 70S BUT SOME BREAKS IN CLOUDS SHOULD ALLOW SOME LOWER 80S. FORECAST...MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW MAIN PRECIP AXIS OVER ERN PORTIONS OF CWA INTO THIS EVE BUT GOOD DEAL OF CONVECTION SHOWING UP ASSOCIATED W/ UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AR...WRN TN AND KY. MOVEMENT WITH THIS IS S-SSW. H5 TROF AXIS SETS UP FROM MD-OK,TX REGION AND WEAKENS W/ TIME. WE WILL BE ON SOUTHERN END OF THIS AND H7 FLOW WOULD BRING THIS CONVECTION OVER MUCH OF OUR CWA TOMORROW...AFTER OF COURSE A DIURNAL BREAK TONITE. WILL LOWER POPS A LITTLE IN LINE W/ NEW GUIDANCE. ETA SHOWS A RETURN FLOW OF MOISTURE INTO SW 1/2 MON AFTERNOON BUT POPS WILL REMAIN LOW. A WARMUP WILL BEGIN TOMORROW W/ LESS CLOUDINESS AND RIDGE INFLUENCE GREATER. AS FOR TEMPS...WENT CLOSE TO FWC NUMBERS. BNA BB 69/86/69/90 3422 CSV BB 65/79/64/83 4422 .BNA...NONE. MAG
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:16 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
EMA reported numerous roads were closed due to high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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