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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Memphis, TN

March 2, 1997Fayette County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 12:27 AM CST for Fayette County, Tennessee. 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
Mar 2, 1997, 12:27 AM CST (06:27 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 1997, 2:30 AM CST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1997-03-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 491 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1997-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -47 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 1, 7:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDyer44 min
Mar 1, 7:10 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGDyer35 min
Mar 1, 7:26 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGGibson34 min
Mar 1, 7:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGWeakley35 min
Mar 1, 8:04 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHenry, Weakley51 min
Mar 1, 8:16 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGDyer, Gibson, Obion, Weakley5 hr
Mar 1, 8:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGShelby34 min
Mar 1, 8:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTipton32 min
Mar 1, 9:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood45 min
Mar 1, 9:17 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGFayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton3 hr
Mar 1, 10:03 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGShelby4 hr
Mar 1, 10:36 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGChester, Hardeman, Madison4 hr
Mar 1, 10:36 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGCarroll, Henderson4 hr
Mar 1, 10:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette33 min
Mar 1, 11:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester, Hardeman35 min
Mar 2, 12:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester, McNairy34 min
Mar 2, 2:11 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMEGMcNairy119 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.