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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Memphis, TN

September 4, 2022Hardin County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2022, 3:21 PM CDT for Hardin County, Tennessee. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 4, 2022, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2022, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Hardin County, TN

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2022-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 751 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2022-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 11:20 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGDeSoto3 hr
Sep 4, 6:17 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGTishomingo3 hr
Sep 4, 2:43 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGDecatur, Henderson3 hr
Sep 4, 2:50 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGHardin3 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.