Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1996, 4:38 PM CDT for Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1996, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 6:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tishomingo County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 112138 FFWMEM MSC141-112340- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 438 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 640 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN TISHOMINGO COUNTY A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN TISHOMINGO COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES PER HOUR JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF TISHOMINGO. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST FROM PRENTISS COUNTY AND WILL CONTINUE TO BRING HEAVY RAIN TO SOUTHERN TISHOMINGO COUNTY THRU 530 PM CDT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE 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
Local storm report, Jun 11, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1258 PM CDT TUE JUN 11 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1210 PM SALTILLO MS WIND DAMAGE
06/11/96 LEE POWERLINES DOWN.
REPORTED BY TOMBIGBEE
ELECTRIC.
1230 PM 3 MILESL WEST OF FULTON MS WIND DAMAGE
06/11/96 ITAWAMBA TELEPHONE POLE SNAPPED.
REPORTED BY TOMBIGBEE
ELECTRIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 30 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.