Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1990, 5:58 PM CDT for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1990, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1990, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 012302 FFWJAN MSC091-020200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 558 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...MARION COUNTY AT 555 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE MARION COUNTY AREA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SATELLITE ESTIMATES OF OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN NORTHERN MARION COUNTY SINCE 1 PM. MARION COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTS THAT WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS OCCURRING ESPECIALLY IN NORTHERN MARION COUNTY. HOMES HAVE ALREADY BEEN FLOODED AND NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS ARE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. <
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
MSZALL-012000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 210 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... DURING THE PAST HOUR...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF MISSISSIPPI...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LORMAN TO WAYNESBORO. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST. ALL INTEREST S IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE ALERT AS THESE THUNDER- STORMS DEVELOP AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 303 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JONES COUNTY UNTIL 33O PM... AT 258 PM CDT MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE REDEVELOPED ALONG AND SOUTH OF A WAYNESBORO... LAUREL....HAZLEHURST MISSISSIPPI LINE. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED OVER JONES COUNTY...ESPECIALLY THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN THESE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROADWAY DO NOT CROSS IfT. MOST DEATHS FROM FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN CARS.
Local storm report, Jun 1, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 330 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 REPORTS FROM THE JONES COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE ON FLASH FLOODING... BETWEEN 1145 AM AND 315 PM CDT SEVERAL ROADS IN JONES COUNTY WERE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. SEVERAL HOUSES IN SOUTHWEST LAUREL HAD WATER UP TO THEIR DOOR STEPS.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:13 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
MSZALL-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 500 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI FROM SOUTHEST AMITE COUNTY ACROSS WALTHALL...MARION...LARMAR... FORREST AND INTO PERRY COUNTY. SATELLITE IMAGERY ESTIMATES OVER 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN NORTHERN MARION COUNTY...AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MARION COUNTY UNTIL 6 PM. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER HINDS COUNTY BETWEEN UTICAL AND EDWARDS. THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AND HOUR...AND WILL MOVE INTO THE JACKSdON METROPOLITIAN AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND URBAN FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN THE JACKSON AREA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:40 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
MSZALL-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 530 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 525 PM A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER MARION AND SOUTH LAMAR COUNTIES IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...AND OVER WESTERN HINDS AND SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTIES IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH AND HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CO~NTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE STATE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS. ACCOMPANY THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:47 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
MSZALL-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRRECTED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 530 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 525 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER MARION AND SOUTH LAMAR COUNTIES IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...AND OVER WESTERN HINDS AND SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTIES IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH AND HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE STATE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL SECTIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Marion | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.