Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, MS

March 25, 1988Marion County, Walthall County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 25, 1988, 4:30 PM CST for Marion County, Walthall County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 1988, 4:30 PM CST (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1988, 6:30 PM CST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Marion County, MS, Walthall County, MS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Boothville, LA (KBVE), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Boothville, LA at 12:00Z on 1988-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 884 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, Boothville, LA at 12:00Z on 1988-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
884 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 6:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLincoln36 min
Mar 25, 1:58 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANPike, Walthall2 hr
Mar 25, 1:58 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANMarion2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1988Every flash flood warning in 1988

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.