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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 1991, 1:36 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 1991, 1:36 PM CST (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1991, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lauderdale County, MS, Newton County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 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 KMEI 191937 FFWMEI MSC075-101-192345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 136 PM CST TUE FEB 19 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY...NEWTON COUNTY OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 1.5 INCHES HAS OCCURRED ACROSS MUCH OF NEWTON AND LAUDERDALE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL HAS RESULTED IN FLOODING OF STREETS...ROADS AND LOW LYING RESIDENTIAL AREAS. IN NEWTON COUNTY HIGHWAY 80 EAST BETWEEN HICKORY AND CHUNKY AND OTHER COUNTY ROADS WERE UNDER WATER. SOME STREETS IN HICKORY WERE UNDER 5 INCHES OF WATER. TWO HOUSES HAD WATER AT FLOOR LEVEL AT HICKORY. IN LAUDERDALE COUNTY DITCHES WERE OVERFLOWING NEAR TOPTON AND HIGHWAY 45 FROM THE COCA-COLA PLANT TO MARION HAD NUMEROUS SPOTS UNDERWATER. RADAR INDICATES THAT OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS NEWTON AND LAUDERDALE COUNTIES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 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, Feb 19, 8:45 AM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013- ALZ004-008-013-016-191535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 840 AM CST TUE FEB 19 1991 AT 840 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT JACKSON INDICATED WIDEPSREAD RAIN ACROSS MOST OF MISSISSIPPI WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE STRONGEST STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM CANTON IN MADISON COUNTY TO LEXINGTON IN HOLMES COUNTY. OTHER STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF JACKSON AROUND EDWARDS AND RAYMOND SOUTHWEST TO PORT GIBSON...FAYETTE AND NATCHEZ. BESIDES HEAVY RAIN...YOU MAY ALSO EXPERIENCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. ELSEWHERE...OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED DURING THE PAST HOUR ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...EXTENDING FROM WALNUT GROVE TO MAGEE TO MONTICELLO. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 9:47 AM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013- ALZ004-008-013-016-191635- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 940 AM CST TUE FEB 19 1990 AT 940 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT JACKSON INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND LARGE PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN ACROSS MOST OF MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OCCURRING IN COPIAH COUNTY MOVING TOWARDS RANKIN AND SIMPSON COUNTIES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. MOST OF THE THUNDESTORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY DURING THE PAST HOUR AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. HOWEVER A FEW STORMS ARE STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WIN DS.
Local storm report, Feb 19, 12:06 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1155 AM CST TUE FEB 19 1991
0945 AM CST...WINSTON COUNTY C. D. REPORTS SEVERAL TREES DOWN
JUST WEST OF LOUISVILLE MISSISSIPPI.
ONE TREE ON HOUSE.
0945 AM CST...NESHOBA COUNTY C. D. REPORTS 30 FEET OF METAL AWNING
OVER COVERED WALKWAY AT NESHOBA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL IN PHILADELPHIA MISSISSIPPI BLOWN AWAY.Special weather statement, Feb 19, 12:47 PM CST, 49 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013- ALZ004-008-013-016-191940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1230 PM CST TUE FEB 19 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH 14 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SECTIONS OF EAST AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI TIL 5 PM CST... AT 1225 PM CST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH WIDELY SCATTERED EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM GEORGETOWN TO NEAR MIZE AND IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THESE STORMS LIKELY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDaERSTORMS WERE FORMING OVER WESTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTH ARKANSAS. THESE WILL BE MOVING INTO WEST MISSISSIPPI LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 12:54 PM CST, 42 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1250 PM CST TUE FEB 19 1991 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 14 WHICH INCLUDES CLARK...JASPER...KEMPER ...LAUDERDALE...NESHOBA...NEWTON...NOXUBEE...JONES...AND WAYNE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND CHOCTAW AND SUMTER COUNTIES IN EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE MERIDIAN WEATHER SERVICE DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS...HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. AT 1245 PM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM TUSCALOOSA ALABAMA TO QUITMAN TO LAUREL MISSISSIPPI. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN. INTENSITY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DECREASED DURING THE PAST HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. << k
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 4:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington | 4 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore | 4 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 4 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey | 3 hr |
| Feb 19, 6:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 3 hr |
| Feb 19, 7:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 20 min |
| Feb 19, 9:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore | 7 hr |
| Feb 19, 9:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Washington | 7 hr |
| Feb 19, 9:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Yalobusha | 7 hr |
| Feb 19, 9:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 54 min |
| Feb 19, 10:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 44 min |
| Feb 19, 4:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower, Tallahatchie | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Yalobusha | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 53 min |
| Feb 19, 5:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 7 hr |
| Feb 19, 5:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 7 hr |
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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.