Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 29, 2002, 7:44 PM CST for Tipton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2002, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMEG 300144 FFWMEM TNC167-300345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 743 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TIPTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 945 PM CST. * AT 740 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS OCCURRED OVER TIPTON COUNTY SINCE 630 PM. UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN WITH THIS STORM. * CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 945 PM CST INCLUDE... MUNFORD...COVINGTON...BRIGHTON .A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3557 8951 3543 8954 3543 9001 3558 8985
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tipton | 39 min |
| Mar 29, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Gibson, Weakley | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 21 min |
| Mar 29, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tipton | 35 min |
| Mar 29, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 41 min |
| Mar 29, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Tipton | 42 min |
| Mar 29, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 47 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.