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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Memphis, TN

February 19, 1991Alcorn County, Tippah County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 1991, 8:19 AM CST for Alcorn County, Tippah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 19, 1991, 8:19 AM CST (14:19 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 1991, 4:15 PM CST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Alcorn County, MS, Tippah County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1991-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1991-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -82 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Feb 18, 7:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGItawamba, Lee, Monroe, Prentiss, Tishomingo4 hr
Feb 18, 7:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGChickasaw, Pontotoc4 hr
Feb 18, 7:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGAlcorn, Tippah, Union4 hr
Feb 18, 7:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGLafayette4 hr
Feb 18, 7:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGLowndes88 min
Feb 19, 8:19 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGLafayette, Pontotoc, Union8 hr
Feb 19, 8:19 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGChickasaw, Lee, Monroe8 hr
Feb 19, 8:19 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGItawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo8 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.