Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 11, 1995, 10:32 AM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1995, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1995, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 454 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 111535 FFWNEW MSC045-047-059-111830- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1032 AM CDT TUE APR 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...HANCOCK COUNTY...HARRISON COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY AT 1030 AM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM MOBILE BAY ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES OF JACKSON...HANCOCK AND HARRISON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. HANCOCK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING WITH SOME WATER ENTERING HOMES AT 1025 AM. JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS SOME HOMES WERE FLOODED NEAR OCEANSPRINGS. IN ADDITION A BUSINESSS ON HIGHWAY 90 JUST EAST OF PASCAGOULA WAS FLOODED. AS OF 10 AM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST 3 HOURS WITH SOME ISOLATED AREAS OF 4 TO 5 INCHES ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST. HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 3 HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 66 min |
| Apr 11, 2:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 64 min |
| Apr 11, 2:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite | 64 min |
| Apr 11, 4:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 4:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Amite | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 65 min |
| Apr 11, 5:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pike | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 8:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Amite | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 3 hr |
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.