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Areal Flood Advisory 113, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 6, 2021, 3:04 PM CDT for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2021, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2021, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lee County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1265 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Itawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 3 hr |
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.