Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2002, 1:47 PM CDT for 7 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2002, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 261847 FFWMEM MSC027-033-107-119-135-137-143-270045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 142 PM CDT THU SEP 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COAHOMA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI QUITMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI TUNICA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 745 PM CDT. * AT 135 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM 2 TO 5 INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE LAST NIGHT. AN ADDITIONAL 3 TO 4 INCHES IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 7 PM. * CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 745 PM CDT INCLUDE... WALLS...VANCE...TUNICA...STRAYHORN...SOUTHAVEN...SLEDGE... SHERARD...SENATOBIA...SARDIS...ROBINSONVILLE...PRICHARD...POPE... PLEASANT GROVE...PHILLIPP...PAYNES .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. LAT...LON 3497 8976 3383 8998 3418 9080 3497 9023
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 1:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Monroe and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 2:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo | 5 hr |
Nearby
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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.