Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1993, 8:55 PM CST for Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1993, 8:55 PM CST (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1993, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 490 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 694 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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, Feb 15, 6:39 PM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013-
ALZ004-008-013-016-160130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
630 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993
... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...
... THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CONTINUES FOR
MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI ...
AT 625 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL
MISSISSIPPI...MOSTLY BETWEEN VICKSBURG...YAZOO CITY...CANTON AND
EDINBURG. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CURRENTLY INTENSIFYING...WERE
OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...NEAR LAKE PROVIDENCE AND OAK GROVE...
AND WERE PREPARING TO ENTER WEST-CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT BETWEEN 55 AND 60 MPH.
<<
TORNADO WATCHES COVER A LARGE PART OF MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 11 PM CST
TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES MUCH OF THE STATE SOUTH OF A COLUMBUS TO
GREENVILLE LINE.
IF YOU ARE IN MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS COVERED
BY TORNADO WATCHES...YOU SHOULD EXPECT SEVERE WEATHER TO OCCUR.
ALSO...KEEP IN MIND THAT WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE CURRENTLY
CONDUCIVE TO THE FORMATION OF ISOLATED TORNADOES AS WELL.Special weather statement, Feb 15, 6:41 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013-
ALZ004-008-013-016-160130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
625 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993
... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...
... THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CONTINUES FOR
MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI ...
AT 625 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL
MISSISSIPPI...MOSTLY BETWEEN VICKSBURG...YAZOO CITY...CANTON AND
EDINBURG. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CURRENTLY INTENSIFYING...WERE
OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...NEAR LAKE PROVIDENCE AND OAK GROVE...
AND WERE PREPARING TO ENTER WEST-CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT BETWEEN 55 AND 60 MPH.
<<
TORNADO WATCHES COVER A LARGE PART OF MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 11 PM CST
TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES MUCH OF THE STATE SOUTH OF A COLUMBUS TO
GREENVILLE LINE.
IF YOU ARE IN MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS COVERED
BY TORNADO WATCHES...YOU SHOULD EXPECT SEVERE WEATHER TO OCCUR.
ALSO...KEEP IN MIND THAT WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE CURRENTLY
CONDUCIVE TO THE FORMATION OF ISOLATED TORNADOES.Special weather statement, Feb 15, 8:19 PM CST, 36 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-160315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 817 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 ...TORNADO WATCHES CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF MISSISSIPPI AND WESTERN ALABAMA UNTIL 11 PM CST... AT 809 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI AND COLUMBUS WESTWARD TO VICKSBURG MISSISSIPPI. STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILADELPHIA...NEAR DEKALB MISSISSIPPI AND SCOOBA MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 6:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 69 min |
| Feb 15, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 61 min |
| Feb 15, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 46 min |
| Feb 15, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 7:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Yazoo | 39 min |
| Feb 15, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 35 min |
| Feb 15, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren, Yazoo | 26 min |
| Feb 15, 8:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 28 min |
| Feb 15, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 52 min |
| Feb 15, 9:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 69 min |
| Feb 15, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 17 min |
| Feb 15, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 10:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 55 min |
| Feb 16, 12:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 34 min |
| Feb 16, 12:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 42 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.