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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Jackson, MS

May 2, 1997Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1997, 11:41 PM CDT for Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 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 2, 1997, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1997, 2:40 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Oktibbeha County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 2009 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.0
Supercell composite: 14.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 030443
FFWJAN
MSC043-105-155-030740-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1141 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

   ...GRENADA COUNTY
   ...OKTIBBEHA COUNTY
   ...WEBSTER COUNTY
 
SOME FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED THIS EVENING IN THE CITY OF
GRENADA...THROUGHOUT OKTIBBEHA COUNTY...AND IN PARTS OF WEBSTER
COUNTY. SEVERAL AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL TO
THE WEST OF THE WARNED AREAS...AND AS THEY MOVE EAST NORTHEAST
THEY WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH WILL CAUSE 
ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.
MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING WHENn WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
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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 2, 7:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
734 PM CDT FRI MAY 02 1997

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

0425 PM    BASTROP                   LA   TORNADO
05/02/97   MOREHOUSE                      TORNADO REPORTED ON THE
                                          GROUND 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF
                                          BASTROP BY MOREHOUSE
                                          PARISH SHERIFF... NUMEROUS
                                          TREES DOWN IN PARISH

0440 PM    GREENWOOD                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   LEFLORE                        EXTENSIVE WIND DAMAGE IN
                                          GREENWOOD TO TREES AND
                                          SOME BUILDINGS

0445 PM    GOODWILL                  LA   TORNADO
05/02/97   WEST CARROLL                   TORNADO CROSSED HIGHWAY 2
                                          NEAR GOODWILL THROUGH OPEN
                                          FIELD

0456 PM    DUCK HILL                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   MONTGOMERY                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AT
                                          DUCK HILL REPORTED BY
                                          RADIO STATION

0537 PM    BONITA                    LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   MOREHOUSE                      TREES DOWN IN BONITA WITH
                                          MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY MOREHOUSE PARISH
                                          SHERIFF

0542 PM    ROLLING FORK              MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   SHARKEY                        TREES DOWN IN ROLLING FORK
                                          REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO

0600 PM    ANGUILLA                  MS   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   SHARKEY                        QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR
                                          SIZE HAIL IN ANGUILLA
                                          REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
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0600 PM    ROLLING FORK              MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   SHARKEY                        NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS
                                          SHARKEY COUNTY

0645 PM    BELZONI                   MS   TORNADO
05/02/97   HUMPHREYS                      MAJOR DAMAGE IN DOWNTOWN
                                          BELZONI FORD DEALERSHIP
                                          WINDOWS BLOWN OUT ROOF OFF
                                          GRAIN COMPLEX DESTROYED
                                          NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN

0715 PM    WINONA                    MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   MONTGOMERY                     DIME SIZE HAIL IN WINONA

0718 PM    BELZONI                   MS   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   HUMPHREYS                      QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR
                                          SIZE HAIL IN BELZONI WITH
                                          ADDITIONAL WIND DAMAGE TO
                                          SOME BUILDINGS

Local storm report, May 2, 7:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
734 PM CDT FRI MAY 02 1997

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

0425 PM    BASTROP                   LA   TORNADO
05/02/97   MOREHOUSE                      TORNADO REPORTED ON THE
                                          GROUND 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF
                                          BASTROP BY MOREHOUSE
                                          PARISH SHERIFF... NUMEROUS
                                          TREES DOWN IN PARISH

0440 PM    GREENWOOD                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   LEFLORE                        EXTENSIVE WIND DAMAGE IN
                                          GREENWOOD TO TREES AND
                                          SOME BUILDINGS

0445 PM    GOODWILL                  LA   TORNADO
05/02/97   WEST CARROLL                   TORNADO CROSSED HIGHWAY 2
                                          NEAR GOODWILL THROUGH OPEN
                                          FIELD

0456 PM    DUCK HILL                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   MONTGOMERY                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AT
                                          DUCK HILL REPORTED BY
                                          RADIO STATION

0537 PM    BONITA                    LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   MOREHOUSE                      TREES DOWN IN BONITA WITH
                                          MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY MOREHOUSE PARISH
                                          SHERIFF

0542 PM    ROLLING FORK              MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   SHARKEY                        TREES DOWN IN ROLLING FORK
                                          REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO

0600 PM    ANGUILLA                  MS   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   SHARKEY                        QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR
                                          SIZE HAIL IN ANGUILLA
                                          REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
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0600 PM    ROLLING FORK              MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   SHARKEY                        NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS
                                          SHARKEY COUNTY

0645 PM    BELZONI                   MS   TORNADO
05/02/97   HUMPHREYS                      MAJOR DAMAGE IN DOWNTOWN
                                          BELZONI FORD DEALERSHIP
                                          WINDOWS BLOWN OUT ROOF OFF
                                          GRAIN COMPLEX DESTROYED
                                          NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN

0715 PM    WINONA                    MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   MONTGOMERY                     DIME SIZE HAIL IN WINONA

0718 PM    BELZONI                   MS   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   HUMPHREYS                      QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR
"                                          SIZE HAIL IN BELZONI WITH
                                          ADDITIONAL WIND DAMAGE TO
                                          SOME BUILDINGS

Local storm report, May 2, 9:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
923 PM CDT FRI MAY 02 1997

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

0515 PM    GRENADA                   MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   GRENADA                        ROOF BLOWN OFF AIRPORT
                                          HANGAR AT GRENADA

0620 PM    TCHULA                    MS   TORNADO
05/02/97   HOLMES                         MAJOR DAMAGE TO V.
                                          MARSHALL SCHOOL AND A
                                          CHURCH AND HOUSE OUTSIDE
                                          TCHULA NO INJURIES.

0700 PM    TCHULA                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   HOLMES                         BUILDINGS DAMAGED AND
                                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          AT TCHULA

0740 PM    LELAND                    MS
05/02/97   WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL
                                          CLOUDS BY SHERIFF AND
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

0748 PM    ACKERMAN                  MS
05/02/97   CHOCTAW                        FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED ON
                                          HIGHWAY 9 2 MILES NORTH OF
                                          ACKERMAN BY AMATEUR RADIO

0748 PM    ACKERMAN                  MS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   CHOCTAW                        NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          2 MILES NORTH OF ACKERMAN
                                          BY AMATEUR RADIO

0800 PM    KILMICHAEL                MS   1 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   MONTGOMERY                     QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
                                          KILMICHAEL BY PUBLIC

0830 PM    GREENVILLE                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   WASHINGTON                     3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED
                                          NEAR GREENVILLE BY
                                          PUBLIC...

0840 PM    ACKERMAN                  MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   CHOCTAW                        DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          AMATEUR RADIO 3 MILES WEST
                                          OF ACKERMAN.

0915 PM    KILMICHAEL                MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   MONTGOMERY                     GOLFBALL AND LARGER SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC TO
                                          WONA RADIO IN WINONA

Local storm report, May 2, 9:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
923 PM CDT FRI MAY 02 1997

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

0515 PM    GRENADA                   MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   GRENADA                        ROOF BLOWN OFF AIRPORT
                                          HANGAR AT GRENADA

0620 PM    TCHULA                    MS   TORNADO
05/02/97   HOLMES                         MAJOR DAMAGE TO V.
                                          MARSHALL SCHOOL AND A
                                          CHURCH AND HOUSE OUTSIDE
                                          TCHULA NO INJURIES.

0700 PM    TCHULA                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/97   HOLMES                         BUILDINGS DAMAGED AND
                                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          AT TCHULA

0740 PM    LELAND                    MS
05/02/97   WASHINGTON                     NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL
                                          CLOUDS BY SHERIFF AND
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

0748 PM    ACKERMAN                  MS
05/02/97   CHOCTAW                        FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED ON
                                          HIGHWAY 9 2 MILES NORTH OF
                                          ACKERMAN BY AMATEUR RADIO

0748 PM    ACKERMAN                  MS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   CHOCTAW                        NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          2 MILES NORTH OF ACKERMAN
                                          BY AMATEUR RADIO

0800 PM    KILMICHAEL                MS   1 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   MONTGOMERY                     QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
                                          KILMICHAEL BY PUBLIC

0830 PM    GREENVILLE                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   WASHINGTON                     3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED
                                          NEAR GREENVILLE BY
                                          PUBLIC...

0840 PM    ACKERMAN                  MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   CHOCTAW                        DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          AMATEUR RADIO 3 MILES WEST
                                          OF ACKERMAN.

0915 PM    KILMICHAEL                MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/97   MONTGOMERY                     GOLFBALL AND LARGER SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC TO
                                          WONA RADIO IN WINONA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	52 min
May 2, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	48 min
May 2, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	41 min
May 2, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw	45 min
May 2, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	49 min
May 2, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	44 min
May 2, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	42 min
May 2, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	46 min
May 2, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	47 min
May 2, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	43 min
May 2, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	41 min
May 2, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	57 min
May 2, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Montgomery	3 hr
May 2, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha, Webster	3 hr
May 2, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Montgomery	51 min
May 2, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	48 min
May 2, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leflore	41 min
May 2, 9:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw	51 min
May 2, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	48 min
May 2, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	29 min
May 2, 9:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw	3 hr
May 2, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	40 min
May 2, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	49 min
May 2, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	41 min
May 2, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	54 min
May 2, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	46 min
May 2, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	52 min
May 2, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	48 min
May 2, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	51 min
May 2, 11:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada, Webster	3 hr
May 3, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	43 min
May 3, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	54 min
May 3, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren, Yazoo	41 min
May 3, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	42 min
May 3, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin	49 min
May 3, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	53 min
May 3, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	50 min
May 3, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	53 min
May 3, 2:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	63 min
May 3, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	44 min
May 3, 4:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	42 min
May 3, 4:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	53 min
May 3, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.