Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Dec 3, 1994, 8:04 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 3, 1994, 8:04 PM CST (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 3, 1994, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 040205 FFWMEI MSC075-040300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 804 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY AT 802 PM CST A LARGE THUNDERSTORM DUMPING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CENTRAL LAUDERDALE COUNTY WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 TO 25 MPH. ALMOST 3/4 INCH FELL AS THIS STORM PASSED JUST WEST OF THE AIRPORT. MORE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OVER CENTRAL CLARKE COUNTY AND SHOULD MOVE OVER THE ALREADY SAUTRATED GROUND. PERSONS IN LAUDERDALE COUNTY SHOULD TAKE ACTION FOR THIS STORM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOOD ING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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, Dec 3, 7:49 PM CST, 15 minutes before
MSZ012-040245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 749 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT...INCLUDING JONES AND WAYNE COUNTY... AT 742 PM AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS DUMPING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN FALL OVER SOUTHWEST LAUDERDALE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM WILL EXPERIENCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 INCH OF RAIN AS IT PASSES. THUS FAR NO PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN LAUDERDALE OR CLARKE COUNTIES BUT A TRAIL OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. BE PREPARED IF A FLASH FLOOD WARNING BECOMS NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Dec 3, 7:50 PM CST, 14 minutes before
MSZ012-040245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 749 PM CST SAT DEC 3 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT...INCLUDING JONES AND WAYNE COUNTY... AT 742 PM AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS DUMPING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN FALL OVER SOUTHWEST LAUDERDALE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM WILL EXPERIENCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 INCH OF RAIN AS IT PASSES. THUS FAR NO PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN LAUDERDALE OR CLARKE COUNTIES BUT A TRAIL OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. BE PREPARED IF A FLASH FLOOD WARNING BECOMS NECESSARY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 8:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 2 hr |
| Dec 3, 10:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.