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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 2016, 12:47 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Mississippi County, Poinsett County, Arkansas; DeSoto County, Mississippi; Shelby County, Tennessee. 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
- Apr 29, 2016, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Crittenden County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, DeSoto County, MS, Shelby County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 12:51 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 6 Ne Midtown Memphis, TN | WATER CURB TO CURB AND SIX TO EIGHT INCHES DEEP AT WELLS STATION ROAD AND RUSSWOOD. DAYTONA ROAD AND TRUMAN AVENUE ALSO FLOODED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
612
WGUS54 KMEG 291747
FFWMEG
ARC035-093-111-MSC033-TNC157-292045-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0063.160429T1747Z-160429T2045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1247 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN POINSETT COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
NORTHERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...
CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTY IN EASTWEST TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 1247 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN
HAS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST 3 HOURS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BARTLETT...SOUTHAVEN...GERMANTOWN...OLIVE BRANCH...WEST MEMPHIS...
HORN LAKE...MARION...MILLINGTON...MARKED TREE...EARLE...WILSON...
TYRONZA...MEEMAN SHELBY FOREST STATE PARK...T O FULLER STATE
PARK...WALLS...JOINER...CRAWFORDSVILLE...EDMONDSON...SUNSET AND
GILMORE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3553 9067 3556 9002 3555 9004 3551 9005
3546 9002 3541 9005 3539 8994 3493 8973
3492 9040 3515 9040 3515 9050 3544 9050
3545 9063
$$1 follow-up statement
357
WGUS74 KMEG 291918
FFSMEG
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
218 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2016
ARC035-093-111-MSC033-TNC157-291928-
/O.CAN.KMEG.FF.W.0063.000000T0000Z-160429T2045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CRITTENDEN AR-MISSISSIPPI AR-POINSETT AR-DESOTO MS-SHELBY TN-
218 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CRITTENDEN...SOUTHWESTERN
MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEASTERN POINSETT...NORTHERN DESOTO AND CENTRAL
SHELBY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE
A THREAT.
LAT...LON 3553 9067 3556 9002 3555 9004 3551 9005
3546 9002 3541 9005 3539 8994 3493 8973
3492 9040 3515 9040 3515 9050 3544 9050
3545 9063
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 10:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Cross, Lee, Phillips, Poinsett, St. Francis | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more | 19 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:26 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 50 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall, Panola, Tate | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 12:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tallahatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Benton, Lafayette, Marshall | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah, Union | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 1:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Yalobusha | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 2:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Prentiss, Tippah, Union | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 23 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2016Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2016Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2016Every flash flood warning in 2016
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.