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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Memphis, TN

November 28, 2001Weakley County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Nov 28, 2001, 7:27 PM CST for Weakley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Nov 28, 2001, 7:27 PM CST (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Nov 28, 2001, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Weakley County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 380 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMEG 290129
FFWMEM
TNC183-290430-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEAKLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST.

* AT 723 PM CST...ROADS WERE REPORTED FLOODED IN WEAKLEY COUNTY WITH
  THREE TO FOUR FEET OF WATER IN LOW SPOTS. HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE
  ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH 1030 PM CAUSING FLASH FLOODING.

* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 1030 PM CST INCLUDE...
  SHARON...PALMERSVILLE...MARTIN...GLEASON...DRESDEN...CRONANVILLE...
  LATHAM

.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 3650 8851 3612 8854 3613 8879 3624 8896
          3652 8883

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 28, 6:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Haywood	46 min
Nov 28, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Madison	41 min
Nov 28, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson, Weakley	34 min
Nov 28, 8:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Hardeman	4 hr
Nov 29, 12:21 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Hardeman	4 hr
Nov 29, 3:06 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur	3 hr
Nov 29, 4:01 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Henderson and 3 more	4 hr

Nearby

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

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.