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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Memphis, TN

August 27, 1992Prentiss County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1992, 3:39 PM CDT for Prentiss County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1992, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Prentiss County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1992-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 959 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1992-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 260 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
959 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
7.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 7:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw42 min

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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.