Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2016, 5:55 AM CDT for 4 counties in 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, 5:55 AM CDT (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clay County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Randolph County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:55 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.
481
WGUS54 KMEG 271055
FFWMEG
ARC021-055-075-121-271400-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0084.160527T1055Z-160527T1400Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
555 AM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LAWRENCE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
CLAY COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
WESTERN GREENE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
* UNTIL 900 AM CDT
* AT 554 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 2 TO 4 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 3 HOURS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
POCAHONTAS...WALNUT RIDGE...CORNING...HOXIE...BLACK ROCK...LAKE
CHARLES STATE PARK...LAKE FRIERSON STATE PARK...CROWLEYS RIDGE
STATE PARK...IMBODEN...RAVENDEN...LAFE...REYNO...COLLEGE CITY...
PORTIA...MAYNARD...BIGGERS...STRAWBERRY...LYNN...KNOBEL AND
POLLARD.
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 3650 9021 3596 9072 3597 9085 3588 9087
3589 9136 3623 9135 3624 9126 3633 9126
3633 9128 3637 9128 3639 9131 3642 9131
3642 9135 3647 9136 3649 9140 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, 3:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | 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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.