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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN

March 1, 1997Fayette County, Hardeman County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 1997, 3:33 AM CST for Fayette County, Hardeman 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 1, 1997, 3:33 AM CST (09:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 1997, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -249 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 344 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 010933
FFWMEM
TNC047-069-011200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
333 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

   ...FAYETTE COUNTY
   ...HARDEMAN COUNTY
 
AT 328 AM CST...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS FAYETTE AND HARDEMAN COUNTIES. OVER TWO
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE LAST HOUR ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR
MOSCOW THROUGH SOMERVILLE TO WHITEVILLE. THE FAYETTE COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED WATER OVER HIGHWAYS IN FAYETTE
COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE
ACROSS FAYETTE AND HARDEMAN COUNTIES THROUGH 6 AM CST.

.BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.
MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 

&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett	32 min
Feb 28, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	32 min
Feb 28, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	35 min
Feb 28, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	31 min
Mar 1, 12:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	35 min
Mar 1, 2:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester	92 min
Mar 1, 2:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	21 min
Mar 1, 3:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	2 hr
Mar 1, 4:47 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Henderson	2 hr
Mar 1, 9:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	31 min
Mar 1, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood	34 min
Mar 1, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett	35 min
Mar 1, 4:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson	35 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.