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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2016, 12:31 PM CDT for Craighead County, 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
- May 27, 2016, 12:31 PM CDT (17:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 3:30 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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 27, 12:32 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Bay, AR | WATER COVERING PORTIONS OF I-555 IN BAY CAUSING LANES OF TRAFFIC TO BE CLOSED. |
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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted.
346
WGUS54 KMEG 271731
FFWMEG
ARC031-272030-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0085.160527T1731Z-160527T2030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1231 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 1231 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 3 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...
JONESBORO...LAKE CITY...BAY...BROOKLAND...MONETTE...CARAWAY...BLACK
OAK...SANDY...GOOBERTOWN...POPLAR RIDGE...LESTER...CARY...
MANGRUM...SOUTHLAND...LUNSFORD...BUNNEY...DAVIS SPUR...FARRVILLE...
MACEY AND GUM POINT.
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 3596 9062 3597 9057 3597 9039 3599 9038
3600 9029 3570 9029 3571 9077
$$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, 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 |
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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.