Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 2:11 AM CST for McNairy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 119 min. 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, 2:11 AM CST (08:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 4:10 AM CST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County McNairy County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 020811 FFWMEM TNC109-021010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 211 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 410 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...MCNAIRY COUNTY AT 210 AM...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF MCNAIRY COUNTY. DUE TO PREVIOUSLY SATURATED GROUND..AREAS OF FLOODING WERE BEING REPORTED IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 4 AM..WHICH WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING PROBLEM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATEFR 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
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 1:15 AM CST, 56 minutes before
TNZ003>010-019>031-048>060-062-088>094-020820- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 115 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 81 CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF WEST TENNESSEE... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 81 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TENNESSEE... DYER..LAUDERDALE..TIPTON..SHELBY..HAYWOOD..CROCKETT..MADISON.. GIBSON..WEAKLEY..HENRY..CARROLL..BENTON..HOUSTON..STEWART AND MONTGOMERY. HOWEVER..THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUTIES OF WEST AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 3 AM... FAYETTE..HARDEMAN..CHESTER..MCNAIRY..HARDIN..HENDERSON..DECATUR.. PERRY..WAYNE..LAWRENCE..LEWIS..MAURY..HICKMAN..HUMPHREYS..DICKSON.. WILLIAMSON..CHEATHAM..DAVIDSON..ROBERTSON..SUMNER..MACON..TROUSDALE.. RUTHERFORD..WILSON..SMITH..JACKSON AND CLAY. A BAND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES ACROSS THE TENNESSEE RIVER VALLEY WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHING ACROSS NORTHWEST TENNESSEE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 44 min |
| Mar 1, 7:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Gibson | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 8:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer, Gibson, Obion, Weakley | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tipton | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 9:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, Madison | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henderson | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 12:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 34 min |
Nearby
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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.