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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN

June 5, 20144 counties in Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this areal flood warning at Jun 5, 2014, 7:48 AM CDT for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 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: Jun 5, 2014, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2014, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Henry County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 5, 6:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 5:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:39 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
739 AM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 AM     FLASH FLOOD      HOLLADAY                35.87N 88.15W
06/05/2014                   BENTON             TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            PINEVIEW RD WASHED COMPLETELY OUT... KELLY RD BRIDGE WAS
            COVERED WITH 2 FEET OF WATER... CULVERT WASHED OUT ON
            ROWLAND RD... SEVERAL OTHER LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE
            COUNTY REPORTING FLOODING

&&

JPM

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:46 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
746 AM CDT THU JUN 05 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1230 AM     TSTM WND DMG     CAMDEN                  36.06N 88.10W
06/05/2014                   BENTON             TN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTING SEVERAL TREES AND POWERLINES
            DOWN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

&&

JPM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	49 min
Jun 4, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry, Obion, Weakley	41 min
Jun 4, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry	27 min
Jun 4, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henry, Obion, Weakley	50 min
Jun 5, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henry, Weakley	43 min
Jun 5, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	49 min
Jun 5, 1:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henry, Weakley	6 hr
Jun 5, 4:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson	3 hr
Jun 5, 8:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Weakley	51 min
Jun 5, 8:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more	39 hr
Jun 5, 9:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson, Madison	3 hr
Jun 5, 11:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Madison	23 min
Jun 5, 12:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 6 more	3 hr
Jun 5, 1:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Haywood, Madison	30 min
Jun 5, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	40 min
Jun 5, 1:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henry	6 hr
Jun 5, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison and 2 more	28 min
Jun 5, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale and 2 more	40 min
Jun 5, 2:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 3 more	4 hr
Jun 5, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, McNairy, Madison	43 min
Jun 5, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henderson and 4 more	24 min
Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy	45 min
Jun 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson and 5 more	47 min
Jun 5, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy, Madison	45 min
Jun 5, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson	32 min
Jun 5, 3:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 6 more	4 hr
Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Decatur	10 min
Jun 5, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tippah, Union	52 min
Jun 5, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss, Union	34 min
Jun 5, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	49 min
Jun 5, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc	46 min
Jun 5, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	28 min
Jun 5, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene, Randolph	27 min
Jun 5, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	41 min
Jun 5, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett	61 min
Jun 5, 12:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Clay	25 min
Jun 5, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	50 min
Jun 5, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	39 min
Jun 5, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi	52 min

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.