Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 21, 1989, 2:30 AM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 1989, 2:30 AM CST (08:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1989, 6:30 AM CST
- In force
- 4 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, 8.5 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 210830 FFWTUP MSC081-211230- BULLETIN EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 230 AM CST MON FEB 21 1989 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...LEE AT 225 AM CST...TOWN CREEK IN TUPELO WAS READING 23.0 FEET AND RISING AT 1/4 OF A FOOT PER HOUR. SINCE 700 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RECEIVED JUST OVER THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL. 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, 10:37 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 1025 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989 ALL TORNADO WARNINGS FOR NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI HAVE EXPIRED...THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT EAST OF A WEST POINT-FORREST-MCCOMB LINE. THE WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR AREAS NORTH OF THIS LINE. WIDE SPREAD RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THIS RAIN AND SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE UNTILL THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFROMATION.
Local storm report, Feb 20, 11:07 PM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
1100 PM CST MON FEB 20 1989
...STORM REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 20 1989...
638 PM CST...HAM SPOTTER REPORTED ONE-QUARTER INCH HAIL NORTHEAST
OF NEW ALBANY MS. (UNION COUNTY)
742 PM CST...HAM SPOTTER REPORTED THREE-QUARTER INCH HAIL WEST OF
EUPORA MS. (WEBSTER COUNTY)
809 PM CST...HAM SPOTTER REPORTED WALL CLOUD WEST OF STARKVILLE
MS. (OKTIBBEHA COUNTY)
816 PM CST...MABEN PD REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER MABEN MS.
(OKTIBBEHA COUNTY)
820 PM CST...HAM SPOTTER REPORTED A WALL CLOUD AND A FUNNEL CLOUD
OVER SOUTHWEST OKTIBBEHA COUNTY.
846 PM CST...WEST POINT PD REPORTED A WALL CLOUD OVER NORTHEAST
CLAY COUNTY.
850 PM CST...HOUSTON PD REPORTED POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE
IN HOUSTON MS. (CHICKASAW COUNTY)
903 PM CST...AMORY PD REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL AND POWER OUTAGES
IN AMORY MS. (MONROE COUNTY)
904 PM CST...HAM SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL IN BIGBEE MS.
(MONROE COUNTY)
905 PM CST...HAM SPOTTER REPORTED POWER OUTAGES IN ABERDEEN MS.
(MONROE COUNTY)
930 PM CST...CIVIL DEFENSE SPOT8TER REPORTED HOMES IN ONE SUB-
DIVISION AND SEVERAL SMALL CREEKS FLOODED SOUTHWEST
OF TUPELO MS. (LEE COUNTY)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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 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.