Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1992, 1:48 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1992, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 101848 FFWMEM TNC047-102045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 148 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST TENNESSEE ...FAYETTE COUNTY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DUMPED MORE THAN 2 INCHES OF RAIN ON MUCH OF SOUTH FAYETTE COUNTY SINCE 1230 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE INTENSITY OF THE RAIN ... AND THE NEARLY SATURATED GROUND WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW AREAS. SMALL STREAMS WILL RISE QUICKLY AND MAY ESCAPE THEIR BANKS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTH FAYETTE COUNTY UNTIL AFTER 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON...THE RAIN WATER WILL CONTINUE TO COLLECT IN LOW AREAS FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS AFTER THE RAIN LETS UP. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. SO...THE FLOOD THREAT MAY REAPPEAR LATER THIS EVENING OR TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER BULLETINS. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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.
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, Jun 10, 9:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
TNZ010-011-012-013-014-015-ARZ012-013-101530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 930 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST ARKANSAS... AT 925 AM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXTREME NORTHEAST ARKANSAS FROM HARRISBURG NORTH TO THE MISSOURI STATE LINE NEAR MCDOUGAL ARKANSAS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS WITH STORMS BETWEEN NETTLETON AND MARMADUKE. AS THESE STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR..PERSONS IN CLAY ..GREENE..CRAIGHEAD..MISSISSIPPI..AND POINSETT COUNTIES SHOULD EXPECT PERIODS OF BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH STORM PASSAGE. THIS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL PASS THROUGH THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL SHORTLY AND WILL BE CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ENTERING NORTHWEST WEST TENNESSEE BY 1100 AM.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 10:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
TNZ010-011-012-013-014-015-ARZ012-013-101530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1030 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WEST TENNESSEE... AT 1025 AM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. RAINFALL WAS HEAVIEST WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN A 5 MILE WIDE BAND FROM TERRELL ARKANSAS TO PORTAGEVILLE MISSOURI. THESE STORMS ARE APPRAOCHING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND WILL BEGIN TO CROSS INTO THE WEST TENNESSEE COUNTIES OF LAKE..DYER..LAUDERDALE..AND TIPTON BY 1100 AM. PERSONS IN THOSE COUNTIES..AS WELL AS MISSISSIPPI AND CRITTENDEN COUNTIES OF EAST ARKANSAS..SHOULD EXPECT PERIODS OF BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 11:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
TNZ012-013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ012-013-014-101900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1155 AM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING INTO WEST TENNESSEE... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH WEST TENNESSEE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AS WARM HUMID UNSTABLE AIR CONTINUES COVERING THE REGION. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER AND AROUND THE CITIES OF MEMPHIS...COVINGTON AND DYERSBURG TENN
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:46 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 146 PM CDT WED JUN 10 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HEADING INTO NORTHCENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 1230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATE AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR HOLLY SPRINGS IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR HUNTINGDON IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR...AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS...ESPECIALLY MARSHAL...BENTON...AND TIPPAH COUNTIES...SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ELSEWHERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 29 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.