Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, MS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Walthall | 33 min |
| Jan 11, 7:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 33 min |
| Jan 11, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 26 min |
| Jan 11, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 42 min |
| Jan 11, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 34 min |
| Jan 11, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Wayne | 32 min |
| Jan 11, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jan 11, 11:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 54 min |
| Jan 12, 1:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 52 min |
| Jan 12, 5:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 4 hr |
| Jan 12, 10:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 4 hr |
| Jan 12, 10:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 40 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.