Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1992, 6:02 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Mississippi County, Arkansas; Shelby County, Tipton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 7:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crittenden County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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 102308 COR FFWMEM ARC035-093-TNC045-095-097-131-157-167-110100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 602 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST ARKANSAS ...CRITTENDEN COUNTY...MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN WEST TENNESSEE ...DYER COUNTY...LAKE COUNTY...LAUDERDALE COUNTY...OBION COUNTY ...SHELBY COUNTY...TIPTON COUNTY < AT 600 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS OVER MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND WESTERN TENNESSEE. RAINFALL ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY ARKANSAS AND WESTERN TIPTON COUNTY TENNESSEE SINCE 4 PM. HEAVY RAINS HAVE CAUSED MANY SMALL STREAMS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES TO OVERFLOW OR RUN BANKFULL. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MERGING WHICH RESULT IN CONTINUED HEAVY RAINS...AND FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN A THREAT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 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, Aug 10, 12:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
MSZ004-102000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
200 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992
HEAVY RAINS PELT PARTS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI
HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN FALLING IN PARTS OF MARSHALL AND BENTON COUNTIES
OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI SINCE AROUND NOON. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SLOWLY
MOVING THROUGH THESE COUNTIES AND ALSO REDEVELOPING OVER AREAS WHERE
RAIN HAD ALREADY FALLEN.
AT 200 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAD FALLEN NEAR
HOLLY SPRINGS EASTWARD INTO WESTERN BENTON COUNTY JUST WEST OF
ASHLAND.
SMALL STREAMS...DRAINAGE DITCHES...AND STREETS MAY BECOME FLOODED DUE
TO THE RAPID RUNOFF FROM THESE HEAVY RAINS.
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MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO DRIVE THROUGH RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER
...AUTOMOBILES CAN EASILY BE SWEPT INTO DEEP WATER.
IF YOU LIVE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER
AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
THIS SYSTEM OF STORMS HAS BEEN SLOWLY SHIFTING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST
AND HEAVY RAINS SHOULD BE ENDING IN BENTON AND MARSHALL COUNTIES
DURING THE MID AFTERNOON.
STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.Special weather statement, Aug 10, 3:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
TNZ014-015-ARZ012-102200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
305 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1991
...ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS...
AT 3 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF A THUNDERSTORM
OVER MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN EAST ARKANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
TO THE NORTHWEST OF WILSON ARKANSAS.
INDICATIONS ARE THAT THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED
WITH IT WHICH CAN RESULT IN LOCALLIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OF
POORLY DRAINED AREAS. GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH.
IN THE EVENT THAT YOU EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAhW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND REQUEST THAT
THEY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.Special weather statement, Aug 10, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
TNZ015-AR012-102300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
350 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992
...THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN MOVING INTO WEST TENNESSEE...
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE IN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY OF
EASTERN ARKANSAS ARE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING INTO THE WEST
TENNESSEE COUNTIES OF TIPTON AND SHELBY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF RELEASING TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD RESULT IN LOCALLIZED FLOODING OF POORLY
DRAINED AREAS...INCLUDING URBAN STREETS AND SMALL STREAMS.
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE ALSO A POSSIBLITY WITH THESE
STORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST
AROUND 15 MPH...AND MAY WELL AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE MEMPHIS AREA
SHORTLY AFTER 4 PM...JUST IN TIME FOR THE RUSH HOUR.
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IN THE EVENT THAT YOU EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
AND ASK THAT YOUR INFORMATION BE FURTHER RELAYED TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-102215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 412 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN LOWNDES COUNTY EXPIRED AT 400 PM CDT... AT 405 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN LOWNDES AND NORTHERN NOXUBEE COUNTIES AND IN LAMAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA. THESE STORMS...WHICH MAY STILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MILES AN HOUR...EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL...ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH ARE CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE...COULD POSSIBLY AFFECT NORTH MISSISSIPPI IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES. NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 5:48 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 535 PM CDT MON AUG 10 1992 AT 530 PM..THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WERE OVER EAST ARKANSAS AND WEST TENNESSEE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OCCURRING OVER CRITTENDEN COUNTY ARKANSAS..NEAR WEST MEMPHIS.. AND OVER WEST TENNESSEE IN THE MEMPHIS AREA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER MISSISSIPPI AND CRAIGHEAD COUNTIES IN EAST ARKANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PEA SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE STORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOTORISTS ARE CAUTIONED TO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE <SWIFT MOVING WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion | 61 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1992Flash 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.