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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Memphis, TN

March 30, 20164 counties in Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2016, 10:07 PM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2016, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Emergency: Flash flood emergency
Flood severity: None

Counties Craighead County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Poinsett County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 31, 12:30 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Jonesboro, AR	4 TO 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL CAUSED MANY AREAS IN THE CITY OF JONESBORO TO FLOOD. SEVERAL STREET AND PARKING LOTS FLOODED.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

517 
WGUS54 KMEG 310307
FFWMEG
ARC031-055-075-111-310600-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0039.160331T0307Z-160331T0600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1007 PM CDT WED MAR 30 2016

...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR JONESBORO...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN POINSETT COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1001 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
  OCCURRED OVER THE PAST 3 HOURS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
  PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS.

  THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR JONESBORO. EMERGENCY   
MANAGEMENT HAS REPORTED SEVERAL WATER RESCUES OCCURRING IN
JONESBORO. SEVERAL ROADS HAVE COLLAPSED. PORTIONS OF ARKANSAS STATE
UNIVERSITY HAVE BEEN FLOODED. UP TO 2 FEET OF WATER HAVE FLOODED
HOMES IN EAST JONESBORO. A SHELTER HAS OPENED UP IN EAST JONESBORO. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  JONESBORO...PARAGOULD...BONO...BROOKLAND...MARMADUKE...LAKE
  FRIERSON STATE PARK...CROWLEYS RIDGE STATE PARK...OAK GROVE
  HEIGHTS...WEINER...LAFE...CASH...DELAPLAINE...EGYPT...WALDENBURG...
  FONTAINE...EVENING STAR...GREENFIELD...WALCOTT...BEECH GROVE AND
  SEDGWICK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE
THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE
FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3588 9103 3588 9089 3615 9083 3615 9081
      3627 9080 3626 9037 3565 9064 3547 9104

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett	3 hr
Mar 30, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Poinsett	39 min
Mar 30, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	49 min
Mar 30, 8:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	6 hr
Mar 30, 8:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	3 hr
Mar 30, 8:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene, Mississippi, Randolph	3 hr
Mar 30, 9:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	3 hr
Mar 30, 10:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Mississippi	3 hr
Mar 30, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	3 hr
Mar 30, 11:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene, Mississippi, Randolph	3 hr
Mar 30, 11:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Lawrence, Randolph	3 hr
Mar 31, 1:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Lee	3 hr
Mar 31, 1:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett, Randolph	4 hr
Mar 31, 1:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Mississippi	3 hr
Mar 31, 1:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	3 hr
Mar 31, 2:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	3 hr
Mar 31, 2:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	3 hr
Mar 31, 2:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	3 hr
Mar 31, 3:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden	3 hr
Mar 31, 4:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lee	64 min
Mar 31, 4:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Mississippi	56 min
Mar 31, 5:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Lawrence, Poinsett	3 hr
Mar 31, 9:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead	69 hr
Mar 31, 9:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	4 days
Mar 31, 9:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	3 days
Mar 31, 10:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	51 min
Mar 31, 10:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	3 hr
Mar 31, 10:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	51 min
Mar 31, 10:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Greene	42 min
Mar 31, 10:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett	3 hr
Mar 31, 10:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi	33 min
Mar 31, 10:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	46 min
Mar 31, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	42 min
Mar 31, 11:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	45 min
Mar 31, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	50 min
Mar 31, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	48 min
Mar 31, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	40 min
Mar 31, 12:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi	35 min
Mar 31, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	40 min
Mar 31, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	51 min
Mar 31, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden, Lee	38 min
Mar 31, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Lee, St. Francis	46 min
Mar 31, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Lee	42 min
Mar 31, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Phillips	41 min
Mar 31, 5:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	51 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.