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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Memphis, TN

November 28, 20017 counties in Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Nov 28, 2001, 8:15 PM CST for 7 counties in 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Nov 28, 2001, 8:15 PM CST (02:15 UTC)
Expired: Nov 29, 2001, 12:15 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Coahoma County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 35 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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 374 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 498 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 532 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMEG 290217
FFWMEM
MSC027-071-093-107-119-135-137-290615-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  COAHOMA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  QUITMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1215 AM CST.

* AT 810 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS  
  MUCH OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. SOME ROADS HAVE BEEN REPORTED 
  FLOODED. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 1215 AM 
  RESULTING IN FLASH FLOODING.

* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 1215 AM CST INCLUDE...
  WEBB...VANCE...TUTWILER...TULA...SUMNER...STRAYHORN...SPRINGDALE...
  SLEDGE...SLAYDEN...SHERARD...SENATOBIA...SARDIS...RED BANKS...
  POPE...PLEASANT GROVE

.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 3500 8937 3456 8929 3419 8929 3414 8990
          3376 9014 3414 9089 3444 9059 3449 9031
          3469 9014 3482 8978 3499 8969

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 28, 8:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton	4 hr
Nov 28, 8:38 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	4 hr
Nov 28, 10:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Tunica	4 hr
Nov 28, 10:48 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Tippah	4 hr
Nov 28, 11:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Panola, Yalobusha	49 min
Nov 29, 12:21 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton	4 hr
Nov 29, 5:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette	41 min
Nov 29, 6:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	33 min
Nov 29, 12:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	24 min
Nov 29, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	43 min
Nov 29, 2:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.