Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2002, 7:26 PM CDT for 6 counties in Mississippi; Hardin County, McNairy County, Tennessee. 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
- Sep 26, 2002, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Hardin County, TN, McNairy County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 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 270026
FFWMEM
MSC003-009-093-117-139-141-TNC071-109-270330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
723 PM CDT THU SEP 26 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ALCORN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
TIPPAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
TISHOMINGO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE
MCNAIRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT.
* AT 724 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING
ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN
HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA...WITH ANOTHER INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE
BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS LATER THIS EVENING. NUMEROUS ROADS HAVE BEEN
CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.
.BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY.
LAT...LON 3539 8801 3461 8828 3459 8965 3498 8971
3499 8882 3524 8876The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Henry, Weakley | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2002Flash 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.