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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 22, 2004, 2:32 PM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Yalobusha 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
- Apr 22, 2004, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Tallahatchie County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 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 221934 FFWMEM MSC135-161-222130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 232 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI YALOBUSHA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 232 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS TALLAHATCHIE AND YALOBUSHA COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1.5 TO 2.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 130 PM CDT. AN ADDITIONAL 1.0 TO 2.0 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 330 PM CDT. * CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 430 PM CDT INCLUDE... WATER VALLEY...VELMA...SCOBEY...PAYNES...ENID...COFFEEVILLE... CHARLESTON .EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...PONDING OF WATER ON HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. .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 3420 8964 3388 8964 3386 9011 3416 9013 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 47 min |
| Apr 22, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.