Alert archive / Tennessee / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 2005, 12:05 PM CDT for Madison County, Tennessee. It was in force for 115 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 2005, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2005, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 12:45 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 7 N Jackson, TN | WATER ACROSS CHRISTMASVILLE RD. NEAR OAKFIELD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 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 251707 FFWMEG TNC113-251900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1205 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT NOON CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. A LOCAL MEDIA OUTLET REPORTED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES IN JACKSON. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SPRING CREEK...MERCER...JACKSON...FAIRVIEW...BEMIS AND ADAIR. .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 3580 8861 3546 8866 3544 8909 3579 8895 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 6:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 46 min |
| Sep 25, 7:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 62 min |
| Sep 25, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.