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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 19, 2002, 8:47 AM CST for DeSoto County, Tate County, Mississippi. It was in force for 118 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, 8:47 AM CST (14:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2002, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties DeSoto County, MS, Tate County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:51 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 5 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 191447 FFWMEM MSC033-137-191645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 846 AM CST THU DEC 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1045 AM CST. * AT 841 AM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER PARTS OF TATE AND DESOTO COUNTIES. IN ADDITION...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLASH FLOODING OF GOODMAN ROAD IN DESOTO COUNTY. * CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 1045 AM CST INCLUDE... WALLS...SOUTHAVEN...SENATOBIA...OLIVE BRANCH...LYNCHBURG... LEWISBURG...INDEPENDENCE...HORN LAKE...HERNANDO...EUDORA... COLDWATER...BARR .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 3496 9025 3458 9005 3459 8974 3498 8974
The 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, 6:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman | 114 min |
| Dec 19, 9:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 3 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.