Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 13, 2001, 5:23 PM CST for 7 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 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
- Dec 13, 2001, 5:23 PM CST (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 13, 2001, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMEG 132325 FFWMEM MSC003-009-071-117-139-141-145-140530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 523 PM CST THU DEC 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ALCORN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TIPPAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TISHOMINGO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1130 PM CST. * AT 520 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OVER THE LAST 3 HOURS. WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED OVER THIS AREA...FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. .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.
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMEG 140406 FFSMEM MSC003-009-071-117-139-141-145-140500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1006 PM CST THU DEC 13 2001 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ALCORN...TISHOMINGO...TIPPAH... BENTON...PRENTISS...UNION AND LAFAYETTE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELED... AT 1006 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS ALCORN...TISHOMINGO...TIPPAH...BENTON...PRENTISS...UNION AND LAFAYETTE COUNTIES...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE SERIOUS THREAT OF FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
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.