Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 20, 1989, 6:23 PM CST for Chester County, Hardeman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1989, 6:23 PM CST (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1989, 10:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chester County, TN, Hardeman County, TN
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 4:41 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 435 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 AT 430 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED HEAVY RAINSHOWERS IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THIS ACTIVITY WAS OCCURING FROM NORTH OF BATESVILLE TO SOUTHWEST OF CORINTH. WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN COVERED A LARGE PORTION OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI AND WESTERN TENNESSEE. THIS SHOWER ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFROMATION.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 5:39 PM CST, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 535 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 AT 530 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OCCURING FROM SOUTHWEST OF OXFORD TO NORTHWEST OF RIPLEY. THESES THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFROMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Oktibbeha | 30 min |
| Feb 20, 8:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay | 50 min |
| Feb 20, 8:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 70 min |
| Feb 20, 9:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 50 min |
| Feb 20, 10:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.