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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Memphis, TN

August 8, 2026Crockett County, Haywood County, Madison County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2026, 2:04 PM CDT for Crockett County, Haywood County, Madison 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
Aug 8, 2026, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2026, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Crockett County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Madison County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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, 7.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2026-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1691 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 2026-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1691 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 12:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGBenton, Carroll41 min
Aug 8, 12:22 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGBenton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson, Henry, Weakley4 hr
Aug 8, 12:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGHenry36 min
Aug 8, 1:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGCrockett, Gibson, Haywood, Madison40 min
Aug 8, 1:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGHardeman37 min
Aug 8, 1:28 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGChester, Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood and 1 more2 hr
Aug 8, 1:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGHenry44 min
Aug 8, 1:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGHenry34 min
Aug 8, 1:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGFayette33 min
Aug 8, 2:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGCarroll23 min
Aug 8, 2:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGWeakley34 min
Aug 8, 2:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGChester39 min
Aug 8, 2:29 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMEGCarroll, Gibson, Weakley98 min
Aug 8, 11:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGMarshall33 min
Aug 8, 12:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGMarshall35 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.