Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1990, 5:45 PM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1990, 5:45 PM CST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1990, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 2 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 12:00Z, 11.8 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
- 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
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, Feb 3, 2:47 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
MSZ005 032135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 245 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH NUMBER 16 FOR NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 8 PM CST.. ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI... AT 235 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM OXFORD THROUGH NEW ALBANY ONTO BOONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI. OTHERWISE RADER INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. SINCE THE SOIL IS ALREADY WELL SATURATED ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL RESULT IN RUNOFF AND POSSIBLE LOWLAND FLOODING. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE PROPER ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 3:39 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
MS-Z004-Z005-Z007-032235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 340 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 16 FOR NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 8 PM CST.. ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI... AT 330 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CALHOUN CITY ON THROUGH FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF PONTOTOC ONTO JUST WEST OF BOONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI. OTHERWISE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS OVER NORTHERN AND MOST OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. SINCE THE SOIL IS ALREADY WELL SATURATED ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL RESULT IN RUNOFF AND POSSIBLE LOWLAND FLOODING. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE PROPJER ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 4:36 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
MS-Z004-Z005-Z007-032235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 435 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 16 FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 8 PM CST EAST OF A OXFORD TO VICKSBURG LINE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI... AT 430 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM BALDWYN THROUGH TUPELO ONTO EIGHT MILES WEST OF ABERDEEN,MISSISSIPPI. OTHERWISE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI EAST OF A HOLLYSPRINGS TO WINONA LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE RAINS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. SINCE THE SOIL IS ALREADY WELL SATURATED ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL RESULT IN RUNOFF AND POSSIBLE LOWLAND FLOODING. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE PROPER ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 5:28 PM CST, 17 minutes before
MS-Z004-Z005-Z007-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 525 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 16 FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 8 PM CST EAST OF A OXFORD TO VICKSBURG LINE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI... AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM TWELVE MILES WEST OF RUSSELVILLE,ALABAMA IN FRANKLIN COUNTY TO VERNON ALABAMA IN LAMAR COUNTY .OTHERWISE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI EAST OF A RIPLEY TO GRENADA LINE. THE RAINS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. SINCE THE SOIL IS ALREADY WELL SATURATED ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL RESULT IN RUNOFF AND POSSIBLE LOWLAND FLOODING. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE PROPER ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 5:34 PM CST, 11 minutes before
MS-Z004-Z005-Z007-040030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 525 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 16 NO LONGER IN EFFECT NORTHWEST OF A COLUMBUS TO NATCHEZ LINE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI... AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM TWELVE MILES WEST OF RUSSELVILLE,ALABAMA IN FRANKLIN COUNTY TO VERNON ALABAMA IN LAMAR COUNTY .OTHERWISE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI EAST OF A RIPLEY TO GRENADA LINE. THE RAINS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. SINCE THE SOIL IS ALREADY WELL SATURATED ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL RESULT IN RUNOFF AND POSSIBLE LOWLAND FLOODING. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE PROPER ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 5:40 PM CST, 5 minutes before
MSZ001-004-050200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 540 PM CST SAT FEB 3 1990 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI HAS ENDED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND NO WEATHER THREATENS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AT THIS TIME.
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, 10:21 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman | 4 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.