1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 14, 1:30 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 230 PM CDT SUN JUL 14 2002 UPPER LOW STILL PARKED NR TXK...AND NOT MOVING MUCH. 12Z MODELS GRADUALLY DRIFT THE REMNANTS OF THIS NORTH AND WEST INTO NORTHERN OK OR SOUTHERN KS ON TUESDAY...WITH THE ETA MODEL SLOWER BY ABOUT 12 HOURS. LITTLE DRYING OF AIRMASS BELOW 700 MB IS NOTED THROUGH MID-DAY ON TUESDAY. BEST LIFT APPEARS TO BE IN THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THIS WOULD LEAD TO AREAL COVERAGE ON MONDAY BEING A LITTLE LESS THAN THIS AFTERNOON. AS UPPER LOW DRIFTS AWAY FROM AREA...ITS INFLUENCE WILL LESSEN. UNFORTUNATELY...I DONT THINK IT WILL DRY OUT ENOUGH TO KEEP TUESDAY FORECAST TOTALLY DRY...BUT WILL ONLY CARRY 20 POPS. CLOUDS AND PRECIP WILL BE DETERMINING FACTORS ON TEMPS IN THE SHORT TERM. AVN INDICATES NEXT SYSTEM WILL APPROACH LATE WEDNESDAY...AND MOVE THROUGH AREA THURSDAY AND EARLY FRIDAY. CANADIAN MODEL LOSES IT COMPLETELY...NOGAPS TIMING SIMILAR TO AVN. WILL MENTION CHANCE OF PRECIP FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...ALTHOUGH CONFIDENCE IN DRY FORECAST FOR FRIDAY IS LOWER THAN I WOULD LIKE. EXTENDED PERIOD TEMPS SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. 10 PRELIM NUMBERS MEM BB 074/089 074/091 075/094 332213 MKL BB 067/088 068/090 070/091 332213 JBR BB 070/089 070/091 072/094 332213 TUP BB 072/088 072/090 072/092 532213 .MEG...NONE.
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:26 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads in East Memphis were flooded with up to two feet of water in some locations.
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