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Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2013, 1:43 AM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 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
- Jul 7, 2013, 1:43 AM CDT (06:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2013, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Carroll County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:45 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jul 6, 11:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 11:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 11:11 AM CDT, 14 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1111 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-071100- 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- 1111 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN ISOLATED STRONG TO PERHAPS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE MID SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS IS THE MAIN THREAT ALONG WITH A POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 8:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
817 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013
TNZ004-070130-
HENRY TN-
817 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR...
NORTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND WINDS AT
LEAST 40 MPH WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF PARIS LANDING STATE PARK AT
817 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL
OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
PEOPLE IN HENRY COUNTY...INCLUDING LOCATIONS NEAR PARIS LANDING STATE
PARK...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3635 8809 3633 8809 3632 8810 3646 8824
3651 8815 3651 8805 3647 8804 3644 8805
3640 8801 3636 8799
TIME...MOT...LOC 0117Z 236DEG 11KT 3638 8809The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Henry | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 8:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Henry | 13 min |
| Jul 6, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henry | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henry, Weakley | 119 min |
| Jul 7, 11:07 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Lake | 5 days |
| Jul 7, 11:07 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Tunica | 5 days |
| Jul 7, 4:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Tunica | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2013Every flash flood warning in 2013
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.