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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2017, 5:00 PM CDT for Tippah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 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 16, 2017, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2017, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Tippah County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 800 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
369 WGUS54 KMEG 162200 FFWMEG MSC139-170000- /O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0039.170616T2200Z-170617T0000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED Flash Flood Warning National Weather Service Memphis TN 500 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2017 The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Central Tippah County in northeastern Mississippi... * Until 700 PM CDT * At 500 PM CDT...Doppler Radar estimates 2 to 4 inches of rain has occurred over the past hour. Showers and thunderstorms will produce an additional inch of rain over the next 2 hours. * Some locations that will experience flooding include... Falkner and Tiplersville. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles. Please report flooding to your local law enforcement agency when you can do so safely. && LAT...LON 3492 8887 3476 8888 3480 8901 3492 8901 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tallahatchie | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 6:25 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MEG | Alcorn, Tishomingo | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tunica | 42 min |
| Jun 16, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman, Tate, Tunica | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Calhoun | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tippah | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Monroe | 41 min |
Nearby
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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.