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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 17, 2025, 7:21 AM CST for Obion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 12 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
- Feb 17, 2025, 7:21 AM CST (13:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2025, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Unknown
County Obion County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:25 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Feb 17, 5:21 AM CST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 5:21 AM CST, 2 hours before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 7:19 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 10 days |
| Feb 16, 8:28 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Lake | 12 days |
| Feb 16, 10:00 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart | 39 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:59 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 8 more | 52 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:43 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson and 1 more | 40 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:39 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead | 35 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:19 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 71 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2025Every flash flood warning in 2025
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.