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Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Memphis, TN

May 24, 2016Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2016, 4:16 PM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 reports 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: May 24, 2016, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Craighead County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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
May 24, 4:19 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	2 W Jonesboro, AR	STREET FLOODING REPORTED IN WEST JONESBORO WITH 6 TO 8 INCHES OF WATER COVERING THE ROADWAYS AT THE INTERSECTION OF MATHEWS AND MADISON ROADS. STRANDED CARS IN FLOOD WATER HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED.
May 24, 4:45 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Jonesboro, AR	* 1 INJ * CHILD WAS SWEPT INTO A STORM DRAIN AND INJURED AS FLOOD WATERS SWEPT THROUGH THE WESLEY COURT SECTION OF JONESBORO.
May 24, 4:56 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Jonesboro, AR	SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING OCCURRING THROUGHOUT JONESBORO METRO AREA. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS CLOSED SEVERAL ROADWAYS ACROSS THE REGION.

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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1163 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted.

918 
WGUS54 KMEG 242116
FFWMEG
ARC031-250015-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0074.160524T2116Z-160525T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
416 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 416 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
  OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
  PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT 3 HOURS.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  JONESBORO...BONO...LAKE CITY...BAY...BROOKLAND...CASH...EGYPT...
  HERMAN...HERNDON...SANDY...GOOBERTOWN...DRYDEN...LANIEVE...
  OTWELL...LESTER...CARY...SOUTHLAND...LUNSFORD...VALLEY VIEW AND
  DAVIS SPUR.

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 3588 9103 3588 9087 3592 9087 3593 9086
      3595 9086 3597 9085 3596 9043 3570 9044
      3571 9104

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 11:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Randolph	36 min
May 24, 3:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Randolph	3 hr
May 24, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead	29 min
May 24, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead	52 min
May 24, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi	35 min
May 24, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	38 min
May 24, 5:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lawrence	3 hr
May 24, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead, Lawrence	45 min
May 24, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	MEG	Craighead	3 hr
May 24, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	47 min
May 24, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	37 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.