Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 20, 1989, 10:00 PM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1989, 10:00 PM CST (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1989, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, MS
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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUP 210413 RRA FFWTUP MSC081-210400- BULLETIN EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 1000 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...LEE AT 1000 PM CST...TOWN CREEK IN TUPELO WAS READING AT 17.8 FEET AND RISING AT 4 FEET PER HOUR. SINCE 700 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED TWO AND THREE-QUARTERS /2.75/ RAINFALL. ALSO...SEVERAL SMALL CREEKS AND ONE SUBDIVISION SOUTHWEST OF TUPELO WERE REPORTED WITH FLOODING CONDITIONS AT THIS TIME. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK'S RAINS...ALL THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL BE PURE RUNOFF.
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, 5 hours 19 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, 4 hours 21 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.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 6:28 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 630 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 AT 250 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OCCURING FROM EAST OF OXFORD TO SOUTH OF NEW ALBANY TO BOONEVILLE. THESE 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.
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 8:24 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 820 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 AT 815 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OCCURING FROM WEST OF STARKVILLE TO NORTH OF TUPELO. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE VERY STRONG. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF 6HEAVY 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 21, 2:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.