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Flash Flood Warning 183, NWS Memphis, TN

June 24, 2010Crittenden County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2010, 9:48 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Arkansas. It was in force for 97 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 24, 2010, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2010, 11:25 PM CDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Crittenden County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1931 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 24, 9:20 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:20 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 7:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
705 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-
MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-251045-
ALCORN-BENTON MS-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA-
CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-DUNKLIN-DYER-
FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY-
ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE AR-LEE MS-MADISON-
MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT-
PHILLIPS-POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY-
ST. FRANCIS-TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-
UNION-WEAKLEY-YALOBUSHA-
705 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS...
THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH MIDDLE EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF
A FOREST CITY ARKANSAS TO UNION CITY TENNESSEE LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AS A
COLD FRONT BECOMES STATIONARY ACROSS THE MID SOUTH. DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.

AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND ON FRIDAY.

PWB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 6:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
644 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0415 PM     FLASH FLOOD      PARAGOULD               36.06N 90.51W
06/24/2010                   GREENE             AR   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LAKE STREET...HIGHWAY 412...AND NORTH SECOND STREET IN
            PARAGOULD ARE FLOODED.

0540 PM     FLASH FLOOD      PARIS                   36.30N 88.31W
06/24/2010                   HENRY              TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            MINOR FLOODING ALONG VARIOUS ROADS IN THE EASTERN PART OF
            PARIS.

0639 PM     FLASH FLOOD      HUNTINGDON              36.01N 88.41W
06/24/2010                   CARROLL            TN   EMERGENCY MNGR

            VARIOUS ROADS IN HUNTINGDON ARE FLOODING.

&&

CCD

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 7:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
705 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

ARZ036-048-250030-
ST. FRANCIS AR-CRITTENDEN AR-
705 PM CDT THU JUN 24 2010

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR...

  CENTRAL CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN ST. FRANCIS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT
LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF JENNETTE AT 706 PM CDT...
MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

PEOPLE IN CRITTENDEN AND ST. FRANCIS COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS
STORM CLOSELY.

Local storm report, Jun 24, 7:48 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 8:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 9:31 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 9:47 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Henderson, Madison	100 min
Jun 25, 4:11 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	MEG	Shelby	15 hr
Jun 25, 3:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Shelby	84 min
Jun 25, 3:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood	117 min
Jun 25, 4:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Haywood	87 min
Jun 25, 4:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, McNairy, Madison	92 min
Jun 25, 4:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardin, McNairy	115 min
Jun 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, McNairy	17 min
Jun 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	49 min
Jun 25, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	40 min
Jun 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Henderson, Madison	2 hr
Jun 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Lauderdale and 1 more	2 hr
Jun 25, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson	41 min
Jun 25, 5:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson	2 hr
Jun 25, 6:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardin	115 min
Jun 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Lake	75 min
Jun 25, 2:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	91 min
Jun 25, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Marshall	87 min
Jun 25, 3:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Panola, Tallahatchie	76 min
Jun 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	37 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2010 Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.