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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, MS

April 23, 19954 counties in Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 1995, 1:46 AM CDT for 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 1995, 1:46 AM CDT (06:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1995, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hinds County, MS, Madison County, MS, Warren County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 39 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 303 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 230648
FFWJAN
MSC049-089-163-149-231000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
146 AM CDT SUN APR 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...HINDS COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY...YAZOO COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...WARREN COUNTY
 
AT 145AM RAINFALL INTENSITIES WERE GRADUALLY INCREASING OVER THESE
COUNTIES AND ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS COULD REACH 1 TO 3 INCHES BY 500AM.
STEADY RAINS OF THE PAST 3 HOURS HAVE BEEN AVERAGING 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH PER
HOUR BUT RATES WERE ON THE INCREASE AS WELL.
 
THE GROUND HAS BEEN SATURATED IN THESE AREAS WITH THE BIG BLACK AND
PEARL RIVERS CURRENTLY AT OR ABOVE BANKFULL. RUNOFF IN FLOOD PRONE
AREAS WILL BECOME A PROBLEM BEFORE SUNRISE SO PERSONS IN THESE AREAS
SHOULD PREPARE TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AT THIS TIME.
 
DO NOT DRIVbE YOUR CAR INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER MUST BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
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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, Apr 22, 11:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1145 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995

TIME (CDT)    LOCATION           REPORT

905 PM        JONESVILLE          ROOF OFF BUILDINGS . POWER OUTAGE.
              CATALHOULA PARISH   JONESVILLE P.D.

925 PM        CONCORDIA  PARISH  GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL ON US 84 BETWEEN
                                 FERRIDAY AND WALTERS. PSBL TORNADO.
                                 FROM S.O.

735 PM        LINCOLN CO.        TORNADO TOUCHDOWN. FROM EOC.
              AT RUTH

800 PM        ASHLEY CO.         MARBLE SIZE HAIL. FM WSFO LIT.
              6 NORTH OF
              CROSSETT AND 5 NORTH OF HAMBURG.
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1000 PM       PINE RIDGE         GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. PUBLIC.
              ADAMS CO.

900-1030PM    CATAHOULA          TREES ON SEVERAL HOUSES. MOBILE HOME
              PARISH             DESTROYED. SEVERAL ROOFS OFF HOMES.
                                 POWERLINE AND TREES DOWN OVER ALL OF
                                 PARISH. REPORT OF INJURIES. FROM S.O.

807 PM        INDIANOLA          DIME SIZE HAIL. FROM HAMS.
              SUNFLOWER CO.

705 PM       PIKE CO.            TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WEST OF MCCOMB
                                 ON SMITHDALE RD. FROM HAMS.

610 PM       PIKE CO.            POSSIBLE TOUCHDOWN. POWER LINES AND
             NR OSYKA            TREES DOWN. ONE MOBILE DAMAGED. TWO
                                 HOUSES DAMAGED. FROM rHAMS.

1045 PM      NATCHEZ             DIME SIZE HAIL. FROM BROOKHAVEN MHP.
             ADAMS CO.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	28 min
Apr 22, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lawrence	46 min
Apr 22, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	46 min
Apr 22, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	40 min
Apr 22, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	49 min
Apr 22, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	49 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.