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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, MS

January 12, 1993Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jan 12, 1993, 2:09 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 12, 1993, 2:09 PM CST (20:09 UTC)
Expired
Jan 12, 1993, 8:15 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 12:00Z on 1993-01-12Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1993-01-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 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 122016 COR
FFWMEI
MSC075-130215-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
209 PM CST TUE JAN 12 1993

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......

IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

   ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY

THE FLOOD WARNING FOR OKATIBBEE CREEK IN LAUDERDALE COUNTY FROM MERIDIAN
MISSISSIPPI SOUTHWARD HAS BEEN EXTENDED.

SINCE 10 AM CST THE CREEK HAS BEEN RISING SLOWLY AND WAS AT A STAGE OF
18.55 FEET AT THE GAGE AT PLANT SWEAT AT 150 PM CST.  A STAGE OF 18 FEET
CAUSES FLOOD DAMAGE.

PERSONS NEAR OKATIBBEE CREEK SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CONTINUED FLOODING.

EVEN THOUGH THE RAIN HAS STOPPED...CONTINUED RUNOFF WILL CAUSE THE CREEK
TO RISE SLIGHTLY HIGHER.  THE CREEK SHOULD CREST NEAR 19 FEET EARLY THIS
EVENING.


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

Local storm report, Jan 12, 12:36 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
STORM REPORT...DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1235 PM CST TUE JAN 12 1993

...DELAYED REPORT FOR MON JAN 11 1993...

810 PM CST.   QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF SUMRALL. REPORT
LAMAR CO.     FROM SUMRALL P.D.

SPRATT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 11, 7:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWalthall33 min
Jan 11, 7:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMarion33 min
Jan 11, 8:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLamar26 min
Jan 11, 9:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJones42 min
Jan 11, 9:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper34 min
Jan 11, 9:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke, Wayne32 min
Jan 11, 10:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Lincoln48 min
Jan 11, 11:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke54 min
Jan 12, 1:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLauderdale52 min
Jan 12, 5:57 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANLauderdale4 hr
Jan 12, 10:15 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANLauderdale4 hr
Jan 12, 10:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke40 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993

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.