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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2012, 6:39 PM CDT for Carroll County, Henry 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2012, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2012, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Carroll County, TN, Henry County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
779
WGUS54 KMEG 052339
FFWMEG
TNC017-079-060245-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0056.120905T2339Z-120906T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
639 PM CDT WED SEP 5 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE...
SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 639 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL
HAS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HUNTINGDON...MCKENZIE AND PARIS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
.EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
.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 3619 8814 3615 8817 3612 8820 3604 8820
3599 8822 3599 8854 3630 8849 3635 8818
3627 8810
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 4:53 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MEG | Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Lake and 3 more | 14 hr |
| Sep 5, 7:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Obion | 25 min |
| Sep 5, 7:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Weakley | 31 min |
| Sep 5, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Weakley | 18 min |
| Sep 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson, Obion, Weakley | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley | 23 min |
| Sep 5, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Gibson | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henry, Weakley | 24 min |
| Sep 5, 6:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Carroll, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Obion, Weakley | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Henderson and 1 more | 29 min |
| Sep 5, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy and 1 more | 23 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.