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Flash Flood Warning 265, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 2010, 8:24 AM CDT for Coahoma County, Mississippi; Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 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
- Aug 7, 2010, 8:24 AM CDT (13:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2010, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Phillips County, AR, Coahoma County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:27 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 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 1291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 7, 6:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Watch | MEG | Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin and 6 more | 36 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2010Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2010Every 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.