Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 2002, 10:40 PM CDT for Coahoma County, Quitman County, Mississippi; Phillips County, Arkansas. 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
- Oct 6, 2002, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Phillips County, AR, Coahoma County, MS, Quitman County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 2366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMEG 070340 FFWMEM ARC107-MSC027-119-070630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1037 PM CDT SUN OCT 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PHILLIPS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS COAHOMA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI QUITMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 130 AM CDT. * AT 1033 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS THESE COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THIS AREA OVER THE NEXT THREE HOURS. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING. * CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 130 AM CDT INCLUDE... SHERARD...MARKS...LAMBERT...KINGS...JONESTOWN...FRIARS POINT... DENTON...DARLING...CLARKSDALE...BELEN...WATKINS CORNER...MARVELL... LAKE VIEW...ELAINE...CRUMROD .BE CAREFUL WHEN TRAVELING AT NIGHT WHEN THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING ARE MORE DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3438 9018 3407 9012 3415 9108 3465 9105
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 31 min |
| Oct 7, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 40 min |
| Oct 7, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 39 min |
| Oct 7, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 41 min |
| Oct 7, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 37 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.