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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 2004, 6:21 PM CST for Lee County, Prentiss 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
- Mar 5, 2004, 6:21 PM CST (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2004, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lee County, MS, Prentiss County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 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 060022
FFWMEM
MSC081-117-060215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
621 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 815 PM CST
* AT 621 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES NEAR 4
INCHES PER HOUR OVER THE WARNED AREAS...
* CITIES AFFECTED THROUGH 815 PM CST INCLUDE...
WHEELER...VERONA...TUPELO...THRASHERS...SALTILLO...PRATTS
FRIENDSHIP...PLANTERSVILLE...JUMPERTOWN...GUNTOWN...BOONEVILLE...
BLAIR...BALDWYN
.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 3475 8869 3471 8833 3448 8839 3446 8852
3414 8854 3412 8878
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 89 min |
| Mar 5, 6:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 40 min |
| Mar 5, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 6:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 6:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Tishomingo | 117 min |
| Mar 5, 6:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 51 min |
| Mar 5, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 39 min |
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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.