Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 19, 2002, 6:51 AM CST for Panola County, Quitman County, Mississippi. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2002, 6:51 AM CST (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2002, 8:45 AM CST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:55 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 1810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 191251
FFWMEM
MSC107-119-191445-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
648 AM CST THU DEC 19 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
QUITMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 845 AM CST.
* AT 645 AM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING
BACK INTO SOUTHERN QUITMAN COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES THAT 3 TO 4
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVERNIGHT. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES
OF RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH 800 AM. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO MOVE
INTO PANOLA COUNTY.
FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED ACROSS QUITMAN COUNTY...AND THE
HEAVY RAIN WILL AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION.
* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 845 AM CST INCLUDE...
SARDIS...POPE...PLEASANT GROVE...MARKS...LAMBERT...GLENVILLE...
ENDVILLE...DENTON...DARLING...CURTIS STATION...CROWDER...COMO...
BELEN...BATESVILLE
.A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
.STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST
UPDATES AND INFORMATION. TO REPORT FLOODING ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0
8 7 5.
LAT...LON 3456 8975 3421 8979 3411 9041 3441 9040
3434 9020 3455 9017The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 44 min |
| Dec 19, 12:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 36 min |
| Dec 19, 1:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Tate | 31 min |
| Dec 19, 8:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 118 min |
| Dec 19, 9:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 3 hr |
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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.