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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN

January 23, 20025 counties in Mississippi; Hardin County, McNairy County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2002, 9:44 AM CST for 5 counties in Mississippi; Hardin County, McNairy County, Tennessee. 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 2002, 9:44 AM CST (15:44 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 2002, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Alcorn County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Hardin County, TN, McNairy County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 400 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMEG 231544
FFWMEM
MSC003-117-139-141-145-TNC071-109-232000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
939 AM CST WED JAN 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ALCORN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  TIPPAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  TISHOMINGO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE
  MCNAIRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 200 PM CST.

* AT 930 AM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS  
  PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST           
  MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE. RADAR ESTIMATES AND OBSERVER 
  REPORTS INDICATE THAT 3 TO LOCALLY 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY    
  FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF  
  RAIN IS POSSIBLE BY EARLY AFTERNOON WITH FLOODING LIKELY.          
  OFFICIALS IN MCNAIRY COUNTY TENNESSEE AND PRENTISS COUNTY          
  MISSISSIPPI HAVE ALREADY REPORTED ROADS FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE.

.DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OF MOVING WATER TO FLOAT A VEHICLE. 

.STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION. TO REPORT FLOODING ONLY...CALL
1-800-432-0875.

LAT...LON 3536 8799 3446 8816 3454 8864 3439 8923
          3462 8907 3499 8902 3499 8878 3536 8864

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 10:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	119 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2002 Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 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.