Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Memphis, TN

Issued

Nov 28, 2001, 10:31 PM CST (04:31 UTC)

Expired

Nov 29, 2001, 2:30 AM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Memphis, TN

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tunica County, MS

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 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.

000 
WGUS54 KMEG 290434
FFWMEM
MSC143-290830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1031 PM CST WED NOV 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TUNICA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 230 AM CST.

* AT 1030 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY    
  RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT THREE     
  TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA. AN     
  ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY         
  MORNING. SEVERAL HOMES ARE BEING EVACUATED AND  NUMEROUS ROADS ARE 
  UNDER WATER.

* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 230 AM CST INCLUDE...
  TUNICA...ROBINSONVILLE...PRICHARD...NORTH TUNICA...LITTLE TEXAS...
  DUBBS

.BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS 
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. 

.STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3483 9020 3450 9027 3451 9054 3483 9050

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 28, 1:56 PM CST, 8 hours 35 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
156 PM CST WED NOV 28 2001

STATIONARY FRONT ALONG ROUGHLY A NE/SW LINE THRU TUP THIS AFTN. KNQA
SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF MDT-HVY PRECIP POISED TO MOVE INTO WRN PART OF
THE CWFA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SFC BOUNDARY WL MOVE SLIGHTLY
NWWD OVRNGT AS UPR TROF BEGINS TO MOVE OUT OF TX. STRONG OVERRUNNING
WL CONT ACRS THE BOUNDARY OVRNGT WL RESULT IN RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES
FOR THE ENTIRE CWFA. MAY BE SOME TSTMS S OF THE BNDRY IN THE WARM
SECTOR. N OF THE BNDRY SOME ELEVATED TSTMS POSSIBLE ALSO. TEMPS WL
BE TRICKY OVRNGT AS FNT DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH FRONT MOVES TO THE NW.

VIGOROUS UPR TROF MOVES OUT OF THE TX TH AFTN...BECOMING NEGATIVELY
TITLED. LOW WL STRENGTHEN AND MOVE ACRS NE MS AND ALONG THE TN RIVER
IN THE AFTN. TREMENDOUS UVV ASSOCD WITH SYSTEM THANKS TO AN ENORMOUS
AMOUNT OF PVA. EXPECT RAIN...OCCASIONALLY HEAVY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WL BE ON THE WARM SIDE OF THE BNDRY
MAINLY ACRS NE MS THU AFTN. MANY FACTORS COME TOGETHER FOR NE MS WITH
MODERATE INSTABILITY...STRONG LOW LEVEL SHEAR AND STRONG LOW LEVEL
CONVERGENCE IN PLACE IN THE AFTERNOON. WL MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF
SEVERE STORMS IN ZONES.

TROF MOVES QUICKLY NEWD ON THU NIGHT AND PRECIP WL END BY MIDNIGHT.
SKIES WL REMAIN CLOUDY WITH PLENTY OF LEFT OVER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
AROUND.

DRY SW FLOW ON FRI. A SHORTWAVE PASSES TO THE N ON SATURDAY AND
MAY RESULT IN A LITTLE MORE CLOUDINESS. SUN-TUE LOOKS DRY WITH FAST
ZONAL FLOW. CHC OF RAIN WED AS SFC HI MOVES OFF THE SE COAST AND
SOME OVERRUNNING DEVELOPS.

.MEG...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THURSDAY ENTIRE CWFA.
SJM

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.