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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 31, 2010, 10:18 PM CST for 7 counties in Mississippi. 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 31, 2010, 10:18 PM CST (04:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2011, 1:15 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:21 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 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
536
WGUS54 KMEG 010418
FFWMEG
MSC013-017-057-071-081-095-115-010715-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0003.110101T0418Z-110101T0715Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1018 PM CST FRI DEC 31 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
CHICKASAW COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHWESTERN ITAWAMBA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
PONTOTOC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 115 AM CST
* AT 1012 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN
IN SOUTHERN CALHOUN AND CHICKASAW COUNTIES AND MORE STORMS
ARE LINED UP TO HIT THE SAME AREA. ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF
RAIN OVER THE NEXT 3 HOURS ARE EXPECTED.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ABERDEEN...
AMORY...FULTON...HOUSTON...OKOLONA...PONTOTOC...TUPELO...AND
VERONA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
.EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS BOTTOM LAND FIELDS.
.MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE
INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE
USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS
POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING
FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
.STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
TO REPORT FLASH FLOODING ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5.
&&
LAT...LON 3376 8951 3391 8940 3406 8940 3430 8932
3426 8832 3380 8851 3382 8901 3376 8915
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 145 days |
| Dec 31, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 145 days |
| Dec 31, 10:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 145 days |
| Dec 31, 10:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Watch | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 10:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe, Tishomingo | 145 days |
| Dec 31, 10:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 31, 10:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tippah, Tishomingo | 3 hr |
| Dec 31, 11:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Dec 31, 11:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee | 34 min |
| Dec 31, 11:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 26 min |
| Jan 1, 12:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc, Union | 108 min |
| Jan 1, 1:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc | 65 min |
| Jan 1, 1:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Monroe | 44 min |
| Jan 1, 9:39 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 22 hr |
| Jan 1, 9:39 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 10 hr |
| Jan 1, 9:39 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lowndes, Monroe | 4 days |
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.