Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 1989, 11:54 AM CDT for Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1989, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1989, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shelby 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 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 3592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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, Jun 5, 9:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 830 AM CDT MON JUN 5 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 406 REMAINS IN EFFECAT FOR LOWNDES AND OKTIBBEHA COUNTIES OF EAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1PM CDT... AT 825 AM CDT NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED IN EAST MISSISSIPPI BUT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOR TODAY. AT 825 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA THROUGH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI TO NORTHERN LOUISIANA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS COVERED ALL OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA. THIS AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATIONu.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 11:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 33 min |
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.