Rainfall occurred over a two hour period resulting in flash flooding in Bedford County.
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The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
Rainfall occurred over a two hour period resulting in flash flooding in Bedford County.
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 Mar 25, 7:22 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 822 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2009 .UPDATE... ANALYSIS NOW PLACING FRONTAL BOUNDARY JUST WEST OF BNA...WHICH REACTING TO DEVELOPING INVERTED TROUGH ACROSS EAST TX/LA HAS PULLED BACK WEST OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS. BAND OF RAIN ACROSS THE CWA THAT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH FRONT EARLIER TODAY HAS PRETTY MUCH DIMINISHED...BUT ANOTHER ROUND IS ALREADY GETTING INTO FULL SWING NEAR SFC LOW AND ML SPEED MAX TO THE SOUTHWEST. INVERTED SFC/LL TROUGH REMAINS IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY THIS EVENING ...THEN MAKES VERY SLOW EASTWARD MOVE OVERNIGHT/EARLY TOMORROW AS A CLOSED LOW RIDES UP AND ACROSS THE CWA THROUGH 18Z THU. PRESENCE OF BOUNDARY/WAVE AS WELL AS ML/UL JET STREAKS AND DEEP MOISTURE CUTTING ACROSS THE REGION EXPECTED TO BRING WIDESPREAD CONVECTION BACK INTO THE CWA LATE THIS EVENING AND ESPECIALLY OVERNIGHT. SEVERE POTENTIAL STILL SEEMINGLY HIGHER SOUTH OF THE MID-STATE. TRENDS REFLECTED IN ONGOING FORECAST BUT WILL CLEAN UP A BIT FOR ONSET OF NEXT ROUND. NO CHANGE TO TEMPS AT THIS POINT. && .OHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 530 AM CDT WED MAR 25 2009 TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-261030- STEWART-MONTGOMERY-ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-BENTON- HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-DICKSON-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-TROUSDALE- SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-FENTRESS-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS- WILLIAMSON-MAURY-MARSHALL-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DEKALB-WHITE- CUMBERLAND-BEDFORD-COFFEE-WARREN-GRUNDY-VAN BUREN-WAYNE-LAWRENCE- GILES- 530 AM CDT WED MAR 25 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND/OR SATURDAY A POTENT WEATHER SYSTEM FROM THE SOUTH AND WEST WILL BRING A CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO THE MID STATE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND/OR SATURDAY. 17/MAG
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:01 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
One and one half inches of rainfall occurred in 2 hours between 1 AM and 3 AM. Total of 1.88 inches reported at 7 AM through a CoCoRAHS report. County officials blocked some flooded roads in various areas of the county, that were the result of the heavy rainfall and swelling streams.
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