Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2002, 1:28 PM CDT for 9 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2002, 1:28 PM CDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 261828 FFWMEM MSC013-017-057-071-081-095-115-145-161-270030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 127 PM CDT THU SEP 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI CHICKASAW COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ITAWAMBA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI PONTOTOC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI YALOBUSHA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 127 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 4 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE LAST NIGHT. AN ADDITONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 6 PM. NUMEROUS ROADS IN CHICKASAW COUNTY WERE REPORTED FLOODED BY COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT. * CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 730 PM CDT INCLUDE... WATER VALLEY...VERONA...VELMA...VARDAMAN...TUPELO...TULA...TROY... TREMONT...SPRINGDALE...SMITHVILLE...SHANNON...SCOBEY...SANDY SPRINGS...SALTILLO...RANDOLPH .EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 1:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma, DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 2:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash 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.