Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 22, 1995, 6:14 PM CDT for Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1995, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 1300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 222315 FFWNEW MSC045-230215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 614 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY AT 610 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED ALMOST THREE INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY FROM HIGHWAY 43 NORTH OF KILN TO NEAR THE COUNTY LINE EAST OF PICAYUNE MISSISSIPPI. THIS THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED THIS HEAVY RAIN WAS STILL MOVING SLOWLY EAST ACROSS NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY AND MAY PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL TWO INCHES OF RAIN. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING EAST INTO NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. 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.
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, Apr 22, 1:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
LAZ009-097-221900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 100 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 100 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM MONROE TO JACKSON MISSISSIPPI SOUTH THROUGH ALEXANDRIA AND MC COMB TO BATON ROUGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 4:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
LAZ029-033-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 415 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR AVOYELLES AND ST LANDRY PARISHES OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 410 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LEBEAU AND MELVILLE EXTENDING NORTH ACROSS BUNKIE AND SIMMESPORT TO ALEXANDRIA AND NATCHEZ MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN FROM ANGOLA AND LIVONIA EAST ACROSS CLINTON AND BATON ROUGE TO BOGALUSA AND COVINGTON AND FROM WOODVILLE TO MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI. PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST STATEM0ENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 5:46 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
LAZ029-033-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 545 PM CDT SAT APR 22 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT TONIGHT FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... AT 640 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM EUNICE AND BUNKIE EXTENDING EAST ACROSS ANGOLA AND LIVONIA TO KENTWOOD... GREENSBURG AND DENHAM SPRINGS AND FROM LECOMPTE AND MEEKER TO LARTO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN OVER MISSISSIPPI FROM WOODVILLE TO BROOKHAVEN AND MCCOMB. PEOPLE IN THE MENTIONED PARISHES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 66 min |
| Apr 22, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 52 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.