Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1992, 5:05 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1992, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 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, 10.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 122208 FFWMEM TNC047-130000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 505 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST TENNESSEE ...SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS WERE DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAIN ON SOUTH PARTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY TENNESSEE THIS AFTERNOON...SOME COUNTY ROADS WERE BECOMING COVERED WITH WATER AND HIGHWAY 57 HAS WATER ACROSS IT BETWEEN LAGRANGE AND MOSCOW. THE FLOOD PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WERE STARTING TO WEAKEN IN SOUTHEAST FAYETTE COUNTY BUT WERE GAINING STRENGTH IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE COUNTY AT 500 PM. MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE IN LESS THAN AN HOUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THAT AMOUNT OF RAIN...ON TOP OF THE RAINS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS...FLOOD ROADS AND DITCHES. THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY ... FROM COLLIERVILLE TO ROSSVILLE...TO MOSCOW...TO LAGRANGE WILL BE MOST AFFECTED BY THESE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN DRIVING...MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN CARS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 12, 11:17 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
MSZ005-007-121715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 1117 AM CDT FRI JUN 12 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CLAY COUNTY EXPIRED... AT 1115 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP AND INTENSIFY OVER PARTS OF NORTH AND EAST MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PONTOTOC...12 MILES WEST OF OKOLONA...SOUTHEAST CORNER OF CHICKASAW COUNTY AND 5 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF WEST POINT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AS WELL AS HAIL. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...LOCALIZED FLOODING IS A POSSIBLITY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED...GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNE FOR FURTHER STATE7MENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNING. NNNN
Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
255 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1992
...STORM REPORT FOR FRIDAY JUNE 12 1992...
1215 PM CDT 4 COUNTY AREA ELECTRIC REPORTED A TREE FELL...
DOWNING POWER LINE JUST WEST OF COLUMBUS
(LOWNDES COUNTY)Special weather statement, Jun 12, 4:48 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
TNZ013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ014-122245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 446 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS BRING HEAVY DOWNPOURS... VIGOROUS THUNDERSTORMS ERUPTED OUT OF THIS AFTERNOON'S HEAT AND HUMIDITY AND WERE CAUSING TORRENTIAL RAIN ... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TENNESSEE ... EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ... AND PARTS OF EAST ARKANSAS. THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS WERE FALLING ... IN THE GRAND JNCTION - LAGRANGE AREA OF SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE WHERE SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 18 BETWEEN LAGRANGE AND BOLIVAR WERE CLOSED BY WATER .... IN MISSISSIPPI ALONG THE TATE - DESOTO COUNTY LINE BETWEEN SENATOBIA AND HOLLY SPRINGS .... AND OVER WESTERN ST FRANCIS COUNTY ARKANSAS WEST OF FORREST CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY SO ANY AREAS BENEATH THE STORMS MAY GET INUNDATED BY RAINWATER. THERE WILL ALSO BE A CHANCE OF A STRONG WIND GUST WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMSg. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO FORM AS THE EVENING WEARS ON SO MOST OF WEST TENNESSEE ... NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND EAST ARKANSAS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 4:49 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
TNZ013-014-015-MSZ001-004-ARZ014-122245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 446 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS BRING HEAVY DOWNPOURS... VIGOROUS THUNDERSTORMS ERUPTED OUT OF THIS AFTERNOON'S HEAT AND HUMIDITY AND WERE CAUSING TORRENTIAL RAIN ... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TENNESSEE ... EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ... AND PARTS OF EAST ARKANSAS. THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS WERE FALLING ... IN THE GRAND JNCTION - LAGRANGE AREA OF SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE WHERE SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 18 BETWEEN LAGRANGE AND BOLIVAR WERE CLOSED BY WATER .... IN MISSISSIPPI ALONG THE TATE - DESOTO COUNTY LINE BETWEEN SENATOBIA AND HOLLY SPRINGS .... AND OVER WESTERN ST FRANCIS COUNTY ARKANSAS WEST OF FORREST CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY SO ANY AREAS BENEATH THE STORMS MAY GET INUNDATED BY RAINWATER. THERE WILL ALSO BE A CHANCE OF A STRONG WIND GUST WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO FORM AS THE EVENING WEARS ON SO MOST OF WEST TENNESSEE ... NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND EAST ARKANSAS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER BULLETINS.
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.