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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Memphis, TN

May 3, 2002Prentiss County, Tishomingo County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 2002, 10:24 AM CDT for Prentiss County, Tishomingo 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: May 3, 2002, 10:24 AM CDT (15:24 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2002, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Prentiss County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMEG 031524
FFWMEM
MSC117-141-031815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1021 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  TISHOMINGO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 115 PM CDT.

* AT 1016 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY                
  RAIN MOVING BACK INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. OVER 3        
  INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI           
  OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS  
  WITH AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL.

* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 115 PM CDT INCLUDE...
  WHEELER...TISHOMINGO...THRASHERS...MIDAY...JUMPERTOWN...BURTON...
  BOONEVILLE...BELMONT

.DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

.STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3477 8811 3448 8815 3452 8873 3475 8874

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Tippah	31 min
May 2, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee	36 min
May 3, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	28 min
May 3, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	35 min
May 3, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	33 min
May 3, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	30 min
May 3, 1:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee	25 min
May 3, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	25 min
May 3, 4:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	57 min
May 3, 9:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Panola, Pontotoc and 2 more	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2002 Every 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.