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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Jackson, MS

April 27, 1997Jasper County, Newton County, Smith County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 27, 1997, 3:15 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 105 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: Apr 27, 1997, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 105 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, MS, Newton County, MS, Smith County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 462 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 568 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 272017
FFWJAN
MSC129-061-099-101-272200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
315 PM CDT SUN APR 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SMITH COUNTY
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...JASPER COUNTY...NESHOBA COUNTY...NEWTON COUNTY
 
AT 315 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN
IN PARTS OF THE WARNED COUNTIES SINCE MIDNIGHT. NUMEROUS SECONDARY ROADS
ARE REPORTED AS FLOODED IN THE WARNED COUNTIES...WITH WATER CONTINUING
TO RISE.
 
ALTHOUGH RAIN WAS BEGINNING TO BECOME LIGHTER...CONTINUED RUNOFF FROM
THE EARLIER RAIN AS WELL AS SOME ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO A
HALF INCH WILL AGGRAVATE FLOOD PROBLEMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE
AFTERNOON.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING WHEN
WATER BEGINS RISING.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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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

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 12:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

MSZ054>058-060>066-072>074-271815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1238 PM CDT SUN APR 27 1997

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 208 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI:

ADAMS          COPIAH         SIMPSON     FRANKLIN     JEFFERSON DAVIS
LAWRENCE       LINCOLN        SMITH

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 208 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 4 PM:

CLARKE         COVINGTON      FORREST     JASPER       JONES
LAMAR          MARION

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

MSZ054>058-060>066-072>074-271815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1238 PM CDT SUN APR 27 1997

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 208 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI:

ADAMS          COPIAH         SIMPSON     FRANKLIN     JEFFERSON DAVIS
LAWRENCE       LINCOLN        SMITH

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 208 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 4 PM:
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CLARKE         COVINGTON      FORREST     JASPER       JONES
LAMAR          MARION

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 1:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

MSZ057-058-065-066-072>074-272045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
156 PM CDT SUN APR 27 1997

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 208 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI:

CLARKE         COVINGTON      FORREST        JASPER
JONES          LAMAR          MARION

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 1:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

MSZ057-058-065-066-072>074-272045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
156 PM CDT SUN APR 27 1997

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 208 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI:

CLARKE         COVINGTON      FORREST        JASPER
JONES          LAMAR          MARION

Local storm report, Apr 27, 2:16 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
116 PM CST SUN APR 27 1997

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

0250 AM    4 E MENDENHALL            MS   .88 INCH HAIL
04/27/97   SIMPSON

0415 AM    1 S GREENVILLE            MS   .88 INCH HAIL
04/27/97   WASHINGTON

1240 PM    LAUREL                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/27/97   JONES                          FEW TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWNED... NUMEROUS LIMBS
                                          DOWNED

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	39 min
Apr 27, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	40 min
Apr 27, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	39 min
Apr 27, 2:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	3 hr
Apr 27, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	31 min
Apr 27, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	43 min
Apr 27, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	47 min
Apr 27, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	33 min
Apr 27, 4:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	42 min
Apr 27, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	35 min
Apr 27, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	44 min
Apr 27, 6:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	42 min
Apr 27, 6:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	37 min
Apr 27, 6:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	46 min
Apr 27, 7:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	53 min
Apr 27, 7:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	27 min
Apr 27, 9:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds	2 hr
Apr 27, 11:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	3 hr
Apr 27, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	48 min
Apr 27, 1:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lincoln	3 hr
Apr 27, 2:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	2 hr
Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Neshoba	105 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.