Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 31, 2002, 1:33 AM CST for Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas; Coahoma County, Tunica County, Mississippi. 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2002, 1:33 AM CST (07:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 4:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Coahoma County, MS, Tunica County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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 310733 FFWMEM ARC077-107-MSC027-143-311030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 132 AM CST SUN MAR 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS PHILLIPS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS COAHOMA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TUNICA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 430 AM CST. * AT 128 AM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER ALL OF PHILLIPS COUNTY SPREADING INTO LEE...COAHOMA AND TUNICA COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN PER HOUR HAS FALLEN OVER PHILLIPS COUNTY WHICH WOULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. * CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 430 AM CST INCLUDE... TUNICA...SHERARD...ROBINSONVILLE...NORTH TUNICA...KINGS...FRIARS POINT...DUNDEE...DUBBS...CLARKSDALE...BOBO...WEST HELENA...WATKINS CORNER...RONDO...NEW SALEM...MORO .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 3484 9023 3400 9061 3412 9109 3487 9108
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 12:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 65 min |
| Mar 31, 5:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 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.