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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Memphis, TN

April 29, 1991Lee County, Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1991, 1:58 AM CDT for Lee County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 1991, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1991, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1991-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 515 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1991-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 9:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGLee, Monroe6 hr

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Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991

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.