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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Memphis, TN

July 28, 2003Madison County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2003, 11:54 PM CDT for Madison 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, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2003, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 290455
FFWMEM
TNC113-290800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1154 PM CDT MON JUL 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 300 AM CDT.

* AT 1151 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
  FALLEN OVER PARTS OF MADISON COUNTY. WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED
  OVER THE AREA...FLOODING IS LIKELY.

* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 300 AM CDT INCLUDE...
  SPRING CREEK...JACKSON...FAIRVIEW...BEMIS

.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 3580 8863 3558 8861 3549 8872 3546 8904
          3581 8891

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 11:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake	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

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.