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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2017, 2:47 PM CDT for Crittenden County, St. Francis 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
- Aug 31, 2017, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2017, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Crittenden County, AR, St. Francis County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
896
WGUS54 KMEG 311947
FFWMEG
ARC035-123-312245-
/O.NEW.KMEG.FF.W.0080.170831T1947Z-170831T2245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Memphis TN
247 PM CDT THU AUG 31 2017
The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
St. Francis County in eastern Arkansas...
West central Crittenden County in eastern Arkansas...
* Until 545 PM CDT
* At 246 PM CDT...Doppler Radar estimates up to 2 inches of rain has
occurred over the past 2 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...
Forrest City, Hughes, Madison, Caldwell, Widener, Jennette, New
Home, Cottonwood Corner, Jonquil, Mud Lake, New Castle, Tarsus,
Round Pond, Blackfish, Kinton, Heustess, North Hughes,
Shearerville, Hicks Station and Lucerne.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3512 9080 3515 9068 3514 9050 3519 9051
3521 9040 3491 9041 3492 9089
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 6:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett | 16 hr |
| Aug 31, 8:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 8:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Cross | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 10:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Cross | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 41 min |
| Aug 31, 1:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 1:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Phillips | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis | 6 hr |
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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.