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Flash Flood Warning 90, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2016, 12:44 PM CDT for Craighead County, Lawrence 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
- Jun 3, 2016, 12:44 PM CDT (17:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Craighead County, AR, Lawrence County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
299
WGUS54 KMEG 031744
FFWMEG
ARC031-075-032045-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0090.160603T1744Z-160603T2045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1244 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CRAIGHEAD COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 1244 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE
AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
WALNUT RIDGE...HOXIE...COLLEGE CITY...PORTIA...CASH...ALICIA...
EGYPT...MINTURN...SEDGWICK...GILES SPUR...CALVIN...DICUS...
DRYDEN...WHISKERVILLE...COFFMAN...WINESBURG...ARBOR GROVE AND
CLOVER BEND.
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 3615 9104 3615 9076 3610 9078 3610 9079
3609 9079 3608 9082 3604 9084 3602 9084
3599 9086 3598 9084 3592 9087 3578 9089
3579 9104 3588 9103 3589 9112
$$2 follow-up statements
222
WGUS74 KMEG 031917
FFSMEG
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
217 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016
ARC031-075-032045-
/O.CON.KMEG.FF.W.0090.000000T0000Z-160603T2045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CRAIGHEAD AR-LAWRENCE AR-
217 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN CRAIGHEAD AND SOUTHEASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES...
AT 214 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
OCCURRED OVER THE COUPLE OF HOURS. THE RAIN HAS ENDED BUT RUNOFF
WILL CONTINUE.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
WALNUT RIDGE...HOXIE...COLLEGE CITY...PORTIA...CASH...ALICIA...
EGYPT...MINTURN...SEDGWICK...GILES SPUR...CALVIN...DICUS...DRYDEN...
WHISKERVILLE...COFFMAN...WINESBURG...ARBOR GROVE AND CLOVER BEND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3615 9104 3615 9076 3610 9078 3610 9079
3609 9079 3608 9082 3604 9084 3602 9084
3599 9086 3598 9084 3592 9087 3578 9089
3579 9104 3588 9103 3589 9112
$$630
WGUS74 KMEG 032020
FFSMEG
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
320 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016
ARC031-075-032029-
/O.CAN.KMEG.FF.W.0090.000000T0000Z-160603T2045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CRAIGHEAD AR-LAWRENCE AR-
320 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CRAIGHEAD AND
SOUTHEASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE
A THREAT.
LAT...LON 3615 9104 3615 9076 3610 9078 3610 9079
3609 9079 3608 9082 3604 9084 3602 9084
3599 9086 3598 9084 3592 9087 3578 9089
3579 9104 3588 9103 3589 9112
$$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.