Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1991, 3:49 PM CDT for Adams County, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1991, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1991, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1673 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 5, 1:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, May 5, 1:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
145 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1991
1235 PM CDT...JONES COUNTY C. D. REPORTS TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN 5 MILES NORTH OF LAUREL MISSISSIPPI.
1242 PM CDT...LAUDERDALE COUNTY C. D. REPORTS NICKEL SIZE HAIL
6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI.Local storm report, May 5, 1:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
154 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1991
100 PM CDT...CHOCTAW COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS PENNY SIZE
HAIL 14 MILES SSW OF BUTLER ALABAMA.Local storm report, May 5, 2:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
205 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1991
1205 PM CDT...KEMPER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN 6 MILES SOUTH OF DEKALB AND 8 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF DEKALB MISSISSIPPI.Local storm report, May 5, 2:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
215 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1991
120 PM CDT...SUMTER COUNTY C. D. REPORTS TREES DOWN IN CUBA ALABAMA
(10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIVINGSTON ALABAMA).Special weather statement, May 5, 2:58 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-052200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 255 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 287 WHICH INCLUDES CLARKE...JONES ...AND WAYNE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 286 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 245 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM FAYETTE TO PHILADELPHIA MISSISSIPPI TO WINFIELD ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NORTHEAST OF LAUREL MISSISSIPPI. THE ENTIRE AREA WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD RE MAIN ALERT FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 5, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 67 min |
| May 5, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 60 min |
| May 5, 2:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Leflore | 3 hr |
| May 5, 2:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 3 hr |
| May 5, 7:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington | 2 hr |
| May 5, 8:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower, Tallahatchie | 2 hr |
| May 5, 8:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 2 hr |
| May 5, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower, Tallahatchie | 2 hr |
| May 5, 8:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 115 min |
| May 5, 8:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 2 hr |
| May 5, 8:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Yalobusha | 2 hr |
| May 5, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 2 hr |
| May 5, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yalobusha | 2 hr |
| May 5, 9:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 2 hr |
| May 5, 10:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Warren | 2 hr |
| May 5, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 2 hr |
| May 5, 10:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 3 hr |
| May 5, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 48 min |
| May 5, 11:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 41 min |
| May 5, 11:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 2 hr |
| May 5, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 2 hr |
| May 5, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 65 min |
| May 5, 11:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 59 min |
| May 5, 11:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Yazoo | 3 hr |
| May 5, 11:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin | 3 hr |
| May 5, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 55 min |
| May 5, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Lauderdale | 64 min |
| May 5, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 63 min |
| May 5, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Wayne | 47 min |
| May 5, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Wilkinson | 46 min |
| May 5, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 2 hr |
| May 5, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Pike, Walthall | 50 min |
| May 5, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 48 min |
| May 5, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 48 min |
| May 5, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 59 min |
| May 5, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sumter | 56 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.