Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 1997, 9:36 AM CST for Lafayette County, Panola County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 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 5, 1997, 9:36 AM CST (15:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 1:35 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lafayette County, MS, Panola County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:39 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 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 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 051537 FFWMEM MSC071-107-119-139-TNC071-051935- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 936 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 135 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI ...LAFAYETTE COUNTY ...PANOLA COUNTY ...QUITMAN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...TIPPAH COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ...HARDIN COUNTY AT 933 AM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LEXINGTON IN WEST TENNESSEE SOUTHWEST TO HELENA IN EAST ARKANSAS. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF FLASH FLOODING WITH RAINFALL BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. .A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO |STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tunica | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tate | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tippah | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 31 min |
| Mar 5, 11:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 11:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 32 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.