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Flash Flood Warning 147, NWS Memphis, TN

June 3, 2010DeSoto County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT for DeSoto County, Mississippi. It was in force for 73 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2010, 10:13 PM CDT
In force
73 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County DeSoto County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 337 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2010-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1796 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2010-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGMadison89 min
Jun 3, 7:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGTunica118 min
Jun 3, 8:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMEGCoahoma, Tunica2 hr

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.