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Flash Flood Warning 282, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Oct 24, 2010, 8:31 PM CDT for Decatur County, Hardin County, Henderson County, Tennessee. 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
- Oct 24, 2010, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2010, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Decatur County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 Oct 24, 7:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 7:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 757 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010 ARZ036-048-049-058-MSZ007-250130- PHILLIPS AR-LEE AR-ST. FRANCIS AR-CRITTENDEN AR-TUNICA MS- 757 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... EASTERN LEE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... NORTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... EASTERN ST. FRANCIS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... NORTHWESTERN TUNICA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED FROM 3 MILES WEST OF NEW HOME TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RONDO AT 757 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN CRITTENDEN...LEE...PHILLIPS...ST. FRANCIS AND TUNICA COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR HUGHES AND MARIANNA...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT ALSO INCLUDES FLOWER LAKE...HORSESHOE LAKE...MIDWAY LAKE AND TUNICA LAKE. .A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ADVISORY AREA.
Special weather statement, Oct 24, 8:15 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 815 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010 ARZ036-048-049-MSZ001-007-TNZ088-250145- LEE AR-ST. FRANCIS AR-CRITTENDEN AR-DE SOTO MS-TUNICA MS-SHELBY TN- 815 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR... SOUTHERN CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... NORTHEASTERN LEE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... EASTERN ST. FRANCIS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... WESTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... NORTHERN TUNICA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHWESTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES WEST OF SIMSBORO TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF HUGHES AT 815 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PEOPLE IN CRITTENDEN...DESOTO...LEE...SHELBY...ST. FRANCIS AND TUNICA COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR HORN LAKE...HUGHES...MIDTOWN MEMPHIS...SOUTHAVEN AND WEST MEMPHIS...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT ALSO INCLUDES HORN LAKE... HORSESHOE LAKE...LAKE MCKELLAR...MIDWAY LAKE AND ROBCO LAKE. .A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE ADVISORY AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 4:16 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MEG | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 22 hr |
| Oct 24, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman | 42 min |
| Oct 24, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Pontotoc | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 9:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc, Union | 59 min |
| Oct 24, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 46 min |
| Oct 24, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Tishomingo | 49 min |
| Oct 24, 10:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Alcorn, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee and 7 more | 89 min |
| Oct 24, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Monroe and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 1:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 17 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.