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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 2, 2016, 4:06 PM CST for Fayette County, Shelby County, Tennessee. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2016, 4:06 PM CST (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Fayette County, TN, Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 512 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted.
602
WGUS54 KMEG 022206
FFWMEG
TNC047-157-030000-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0003.160202T2206Z-160203T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
406 PM CST TUE FEB 2 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST TENNESSEE...
EASTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN WEST TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 600 PM CST
* AT 405 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES ${RAINAMOUNT} SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT 2
HOURS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BARTLETT...COLLIERVILLE...GERMANTOWN...CORDOVA...MEMPHIS...
LAKELAND...ARLINGTON...EADS...SOUTHEAST MEMPHIS...ELLENDALE...
PIPERTON...GALLAWAY...BRADEN...ROSEMARK...BRUNSWICK...KIRK...
BARRETVILLE...REDWOOD...LENOW AND CANADAVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3539 8981 3539 8965 3537 8964 3538 8963
3538 8962 3539 8962 3539 8953 3500 8961
3500 8995
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Feb 2, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Henderson, Madison | 25 min |
| Feb 2, 2:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, Henderson, Madison | 29 min |
| Feb 2, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson | 34 min |
| Feb 2, 3:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 2 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 45 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.