Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT for 10 counties in Tennessee. 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, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 262145 FFWMEM TNC017-033-047-053-075-079-097-157-167-183-270315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 445 PM CDT THU SEP 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE CROCKETT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE GIBSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE WEAKLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE HAYWOOD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE TIPTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT. * AT 445 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WEST TENNESSEE. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THESE AREAS. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN WILL FALL THIS EVENING. * CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 1045 PM CDT INCLUDE... TRENTON...ROUTON...RIPLEY...PARIS...NUTBUSH...MUNFORD... MILLINGTON...MILAN...MCKENZIE...HUNTINGDON...HUMBOLDT...HOLLY GROVE...HALLS...GREENFIELD...GLEASON .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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 5 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Henderson, Madison | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 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.