Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1996, 12:47 PM CDT for Attala County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1996, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Attala County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 3020 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.7
- Supercell composite
- 18.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 281752 FFWJAN MSC007-282000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1247 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...ATTALA COUNTY AT 1245 PM A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WAS ONCE AGAIN MOVING INTO ATTALA COUNTY FROM THE WEST. RAINFALL REPORTS OF NEAR 4 INCHES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN KOSCIUSKO DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS. RADAR INDICATES THAT 6 OR MORE INCHES HAS LIKELY OCCURRED IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 35. THESE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS COULD EASILY DUMP ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER ATTALA COUNTY BY 300 PM. MORE RAIN WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE ANY STANDING WATER PROBLEMS ALREADY OCCURRING. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
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, May 28, 10:47 AM CDT, 2 hours before
MSZ001>082-110400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1045 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996 ...MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI... A MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. MORNING UPPER AIR DATA SUGGESTS THAT THE MAIN THREAT ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE IN THE FORM OF SEVERE DOWNBURST WINDS AND HAIL. HOWEVER...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL OF TORNADOES WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS THAT MAY FORM. THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON...MOST OF THE STRONGER STORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTH-CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE WHERE WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES ARE HELPING TO KICK OFF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES RISE INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 90S TODAY...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. WITH STRONG INSTABILITY...BY EARLY AFTERNOON SOME OF THE STORMS COULD REACH THE SEVERE LEVEL FOR AREAS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. ALL PERSONS ACROSS THE STATE ARE ADVISED TO FREQUENTLY MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS/WATCHES AND WARNINGS THAT MAY BE ISSUED. HAM RADIjO OPERATORS/CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONEL WILL LIKELY HAVE TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 41 min |
| May 28, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 30 min |
| May 28, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 45 min |
| May 28, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 39 min |
| May 28, 9:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 48 min |
| May 28, 10:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 27 min |
| May 28, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 40 min |
| May 28, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 29 min |
| May 28, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 36 min |
| May 28, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 45 min |
| May 28, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 28 min |
| May 28, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 47 min |
| May 28, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 51 min |
| May 28, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 30 min |
| May 28, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 30 min |
| May 28, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 53 min |
| May 28, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 34 min |
| May 28, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 28 min |
| May 28, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 54 min |
| May 28, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 50 min |
| May 28, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 43 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.