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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Memphis, TN

July 28, 2003Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri; Dyer County, Lake County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2003, 11:09 PM CDT for Dunklin County, Pemiscot County, Missouri; Dyer County, Lake 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: Jul 28, 2003, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Dyer County, TN, Lake County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMEG 290409
FFWMEM
MOC069-155-TNC045-095-290700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1109 PM CDT MON JUL 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DYER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE
  LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE
  DUNKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
  PEMISCOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT.

* AT 1105 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE 
MISSOURI BOOTHEEL AND EXTREME NORTHWEST TENNESSEE. RADAR INDICATED 
OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST 3 HOURS OVER A PORTION 
OF THE WARNED AREA. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE FIRST 
FEW HOURS AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH FLOODING LIKELY.

* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 200 AM CDT INCLUDE...
  TIPTONVILLE...RIDGELY...MISTON...HELOISE...COTTONWOOD GROVE...
  STEELE...SENATH...PORTAGEVILLE...WARDELL...MALDEN...KENNETT...
  HORNERSVILLE...HOLCOMB...HAYTI HEIGHTS...HAYTI

.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.

.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 3664 9020 3631 9012 3603 9026 3594 8948
          3648 8941

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	37 min
Jul 28, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	47 min
Jul 28, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion	44 min
Jul 28, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer	44 min
Jul 28, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	39 min
Jul 28, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	46 min
Jul 28, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	46 min
Jul 28, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Decatur, Henderson, Madison	64 min
Jul 28, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake	45 min
Jul 28, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester	31 min
Jul 28, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	40 min
Jul 28, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	46 min
Jul 28, 10:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester	3 hr
Jul 28, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	43 min
Jul 28, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	30 min
Jul 28, 11:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2003 Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.