Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1990, 10:21 AM CST for Coahoma County, Quitman County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1990, 10:21 AM CST (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1990, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coahoma County, MS, Quitman 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 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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 031632 COR
FFWMEM
MSC027-119-032030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1021 AM CST SAT FEB 3 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
...COAHOMA...QUITMAN
HEAVY RAINS OVER NIGHT HAS ALREADY CAUSED WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IN
THIS AREA. LATEST RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN
CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER THESE SAME AREAS.
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.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 3, 6:19 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
MSZ004-005-031315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 615 AM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 900 AM CST... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI TODAY... AT 610 AM CST...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS LOCATED FROM 10 MILES WEST OF OXFORD TO 5 MILES WEST OF RIPLEY TO NEAR WALNUT AND CONTINUING NORTH INTO TENNESSEE. THE LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS LINE ARE LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW ALBANY...7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RIPLEY AND NEAR WALNUT. PERSONS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINF9ALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNE FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 6:32 AM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
TNZ013-015-015-ARZ014-MSZ001-003-030900 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 630 AM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE ... EAST ARKANSAS ... AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI... ... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES IN EAST ARKANSAS ...NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER... SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE ... AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. TENNESSEE ... NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ... AND EAST ARKANSAS. ... FLASH FLOOD WATCHES WILL CONTINUE IN EFFECT ACROSS TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI INTO TONIGHT... AT 630 AM THIS MORNING ... WEATHER RADARS CONTINUED TO SHOW WIDESPREAD LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN COVERING EAST ARKANSAS ... NORTH MISSISSIPPI ... AND WEST TENNESSEE WITH SPOTS OF HEAVIER RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS EMBEDDED IN THE LARGER AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING IN AN AREA FROM CHESTER ... HARDIN ... AND MCNAIRY COUNTIES OF WEST TENNESSEE SOUTHWARD TO BENTON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER QUITMAN AND PANOLA COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. STREET AND ROAD FLOODING HAS BEEN COMMON THROUGHOUT WEST TENNESSEE ... EAST ARKANSAS ... AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING BUT NO SERIOUS FLOOD PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF EXCESSIVLY HEAVY RAIN WILL EASE ... A LITTLE ... THIS MORNING WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITH OCCASIONAL BURSTS OF HEAVY RAIN INTO THIS AFTERNOON. SMALL STREAMS AND DRAINAGES ARE ALREADY SWOLLEN TO NEAR CAPACITY AND MAY OVERFLOW WITH ONLY LIGHT RAINS. HERE AREA A COUPLE OF BRIEF SAFETY RULES ... 1 NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STREAM AND 2 DO NOT WADE IN FLOWING FLOOD WATERS. YOUd MAY DROWN IF YOU TRY EITHER OF THOSE. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER BULLETINS ON THIS FLOOD SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 6:42 AM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
MSZ004-005-031310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 640 AM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI CANCELLED... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI TODAY... AT 638 AM CST...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS LOCATED FROM 7 MILES EAST OF NEW ALBANY TO 8 MILES WEST OF BOONEVILLE TO NEAR CORINTH AND CONTINUING NORTH INTO TENNESSEE. THE LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS LINE ARE LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW ALBANY AND 8 MILES WEST OF BOONEVILLE. PERSONS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS YTO 40 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNE FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 7:12 AM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
MSZ004-005-031410- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 708 AM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI TODAY... AT 707 AM...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN TISHOMINGO COUNTY SOUTHWEST ACROSS PRENTISS COUNTY AND UNION COUNTY TO LAFAYETTE COUNTY. THE NORTHERN PART OF THE LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES WHILE THE REMAINDER OF THE LINE HAS SHOWN VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS LINE ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. NORTH OF THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS AN AREA OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS CONTAINING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN. SINCE THE GROUND IS COMPLETELY SATURATED...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION. PERSONS IN THE WATCH ARE ARE ADVISED TO KEEP HIGHLY ABREAST TO TODAYS WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF FLOODING ImS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 10:08 AM CST, 13 minutes before
MSZ001-MS004-031645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1005 AM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...HEAVY RAINFALL REDEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN REDEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL INDICATED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COAHOMA TO HOLLY SPRINGS IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI. A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HIGH WINDS MOVED ACROSS COAHOMA...QUITMAN...AND PANOLA COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. AT 900 AM...CLARKSDALE MISSISSIPPI EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. AT 955 AM...CLARKSDALE HAD REPORTED A TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY 7 INCHES OF RAINFALL DURING THE PAST 12 HOURS WITH HEAVIER RAINFALL TOTALS TO THE WEST OF CLARKSDALE. REPORTS OF FLOODING WERE NUMEROUS IN THE CLARKSDALE AREA. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE MID-SOUTH...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND NUMEROUS PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN CONTINUE ACROOS EAST ARKANSAS AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WITH LIGHTER RAINFALL INDICATED OVER WEST TENNESSEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE RAIN ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI..EAST ARKANSAS...AND WEST TENNESSEE WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE DAY WITH HEAVIER RAINFALL POSSIBLE OVER NORTH MISSISSIPPI. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO AVOID TRAVEL INTO FLOODED AREAS AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS STREETS AND ROADWAYS THAT ARE FLOODED...IT MAY COST YOUR LIFE. STAYED TUNED FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 11:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 55 min |
| Feb 3, 12:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 29 min |
| Feb 3, 4:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma, DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 5 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Marshall | 5 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton | 5 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.