Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 21, 1990, 10:01 AM CST for Greene County, Arkansas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 21, 1990, 10:01 AM CST (16:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 21, 1990, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, AR
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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 KMEM 211610 FFWMEM ARC055-212000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1001 AM CST FRI DEC 21 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST ARKANSAS ...GREENE COUNTY HEAVY RAINS IN THE PAST 24 HOURS HAVE CAUSED FLOODING ALONG EIGHTMILE CREEK NEAR PARAGOULD ARKANSAS. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 3 TO 5 INCHES WILL LIKELY WORSEN THIS PROBLEM. SOME EVACUATIONS HAVE ALREADY TAKEN PLACE JUST WE OF PARAGOULD. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TV FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES ON THIS RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION.
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, Dec 21, 8:42 AM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
RADAR SUMMARY AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 725 AM CST FRI DEC 21 1990 AT 725 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE FROM NEAR JACKSON TO MEMPHIS TO EASTERN ARKANSAS AROUND WEST HELENA. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN ADDITION TO CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WAS REPORTED IN THE PAST FEW MINUTES AROUND THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT MEMPHIS. THE LINE( WAS MOVING EAST WITH INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Dec 21, 8:43 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
RADAR SUMMARY AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 835 AM CST FRI DEC 21 1990 AT 835 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN...AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...OCCURRING IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE NEAR COLLIERVILLE...AND SAVANNAH...IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI NEAR HERNANDO...AND...IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN ABERDEEN AND BLUE MOUNTAIN. A FEW ADDITIONAL PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN WERE LOCATED ,IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA NEAR HACKLEBURG...AND FLORENCE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Dec 21, 8:46 AM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
RADAR SUMMARY AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 835 AM CST FRI DEC 21 1990 AT 835 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE FROM NEAR JACKSON TO MEMPHIS TO EASTERN ARKANSAS AROUND WEST HELENA. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN ADDITION TO CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WAS REPORTED IN THE PAST FEW MINUTES AROUND THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT MEM5PHIS. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST WITH INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Dec 21, 9:44 AM CST, 17 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ012-013-014-211645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 943 AM CST FRI DEC 21 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR WEST TENNESSEE... AT 925AM ADJACENT WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN...ACROSS WEST TENNESSE NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST RAIN APPEARED TO BE LOCATED ALONG A LINE FROM EXTREME NORTHWEST TENNESSEE THROUGH THE MEMPHIS AREA AND ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ADN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA IS PUSHING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 2:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Greene | 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.