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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 1996Franklin Parish, Richland Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1996, 11:47 PM CDT for Franklin Parish, Richland Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 118 min. 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, 11:47 PM CDT (04:47 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Franklin Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 290450
FFWJAN
LAC041-083-290645-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1147 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...FRANKLIN PARISH...RICHLAND PARISH
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS
PARTS OF RICHLAND AND NORTHERN FRANKLIN PARISHES BETWEEN 1045 AND 1145
PM...WITH A TOTAL OF AS MUCH AS 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAVING FALLEN OVER
THE AREA DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL
CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...POSSIBLY
PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.
 
SOME FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEGUN DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN RICHLAND
PARISH...WITH WATER REPORTED ACROSS STATE ROADS 17 AND 128 AS OF 1140
PM.
 
AT NIGHT BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANLGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE SWIFTLY TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.
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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, May 28, 10:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1023 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0450 PM    VICKSBURG                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   WARREN                         SIGN BLOWN DOWN AT THE
                                          QUALITY INN

0525 PM    NEWMAN                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   HINDS                          TREES DOWNED... ALSO DIME
                                          SIZED HAIL

0540 PM    1 W LEARNED               MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   HINDS                          TREES DOWNED

0700 PM                              LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   RICHLAND                       TREES DOWN

0745 PM                              LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   RICHLAND

0745 PM    BASKIN                    LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   FRANKLIN                       ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE...
                                          TREES DOWNED

0955 PM    2 N HATTIESBURG           MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   FORREST                        TREES DOWN

1018 PM    SEMINARY                  MS   .75 INCH HA`IL
05/28/96   COVINGTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	39 min
May 28, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	41 min
May 28, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	67 min
May 28, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Tensas	59 min
May 28, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	41 min
May 28, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	32 min
May 28, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	67 min
May 28, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia	47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.