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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Jackson, MS

January 25, 1990Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jan 25, 1990, 12:03 AM CST for Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 25, 1990, 12:03 AM CST (06:03 UTC)
Expired
Jan 25, 1990, 7:00 AM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Jones 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1990-01-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1990-01-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEI 250609
FFWMEI
MSC067-251300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1203 AM CST THU JAN 25 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
          ...JONES
 
AT 1150 PM THE STAGE OF THE TALLAHALA CREEK IN LAUREL WAS 12.4 FEET.
WITH THE RAINFALL ALREADY OBSERVED THE CREEK IS EXPECT TO RISE ABOVE
FLOOD STAGE LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY TOMORROW MORNING AND CREST AT 14.5
FEET ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. FLOOD STAGE ON THE TALLAHALA CREEK IN LAURELIS 13 FEET.
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATES AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN NOW
IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA MOVING TOWARD EAST CENTRAL
MISSISSIPPI.  THIS AREA OF HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE THE CREEK TO RISE
FASTER AND TO A HIGHER CREST THAN NOW EXPECTED.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. p IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 7:46 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANAdams, Amite, Franklin, Wilkinson3 hr
Jan 24, 9:22 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANPike3 hr
Jan 24, 10:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANAdams, Amite, Franklin, Wilkinson105 min
Jan 24, 10:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANLincoln105 min
Jan 25, 12:44 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANLawrence, Marion76 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.