Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2007, 4:10 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2007, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 102111
FFWMEG
MSC013-102315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
410 PM CDT THU MAY 10 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL
WILL FALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO VARDAMAN...
PITTSBORO...DERMA...CALHOUN CITY...BRUCE AND BANNER.
.FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS
OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED
BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING
STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP
TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3407 8913 3375 8915 3373 8948 3415 8948
3415 8926 3407 8926
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Tippah | 47 min |
| May 10, 1:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tippah | 114 min |
| May 10, 2:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Union | 2 hr |
| May 10, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc, Union | 41 min |
| May 10, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 44 min |
| May 10, 2:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 2 hr |
| May 10, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 51 min |
| May 10, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 34 min |
| May 10, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.