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Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2016, 6:06 PM CDT for DeSoto County, Tate County, Mississippi. 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 17, 2016, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties DeSoto County, MS, Tate County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 2435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
730
WGUS54 KMEG 172306
FFWMEG
MSC033-137-180200-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0095.160617T2306Z-160618T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
606 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHEASTERN TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 606 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE
AN ADDITONAL 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SOUTHAVEN...OLIVE BRANCH...LEWISBURG...FAIRHAVEN...HANDY CORNER...
WAKEFIELD...CEDARVIEW...LURLINE...PLUM POINT...NEW GARDEN...
COCKRUM...BRIGHT...MILLER AND ALPHABA.
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 3498 8973 3473 8973 3474 8994 3482 8992
3498 8996
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 12:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 1:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Marshall | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 1:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Monroe | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.