Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2016, 3:03 AM CDT for Randolph County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2016, 3:03 AM CDT (08:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Randolph County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
281
WGUS54 KMEG 270803
FFWMEG
ARC121-271100-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0083.160527T0803Z-160527T1100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
303 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 303 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
OCCURRED OVER THE PAST 2 HOURS. 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...
POCAHONTAS...REYNO...MAYNARD...BIGGERS...O'KEAN...RAVENDEN
SPRINGS...DALTON...ATTICA...ELKINS PARK...ELM STORE...STOKES...
BRAKEBILL...ENGELERG...WARM SPRINGS...MIDDLEBROOK...HAMIL...
BROCKETT...ELNORA...ELEVEN POINT AND INGRAM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3649 9078 3643 9078 3641 9075 3628 9075
3629 9080 3616 9081 3616 9113 3620 9116
3624 9124 3623 9124 3633 9126 3633 9128
3637 9128 3639 9131 3642 9131 3642 9135
3647 9136 3650 9141
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Greene | 3 hr |
| May 27, 3:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Randolph | 3 hr |
| May 27, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 3 hr |
| May 27, 11:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 3 days |
| May 27, 12:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead | 3 hr |
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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.