Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1997, 4:18 PM CDT for Concordia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 117 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, 1997, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Concordia Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 282121 FFWJAN LAC029-282315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 418 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...CONCORDIA PARISH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LITTLE INDICATED MOVEMENT WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE 1-2 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. THIS WILL RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW-LYING LAND AND ROADWAYS. ALSO...PONDING OF WATER IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER MUST BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. < 68
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, 10:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-290400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1010 AM CDT WED MAY 28 1997 THE AIR MASS REMAINS HUMID AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AS A COLD FRONT LINGERS TO THE WEST. SCATTERED TO BROKEN CLOUDS WILL ALLOW AFTERNOON HEATING AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON. SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EXIST FROM EARLIER CONVECTION AND THESE MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG...POSSIBLY SEVERE...THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WEATHER DISTURBANCE OVER OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS THIS MORNING WILL TRACK TO THE EAST DURING THE DAY AND INCREASE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT.
Local storm report, May 28, 3:49 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
349 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0755 PM METCALF MS WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97 WASHINGTON TRAILER DESTROYED...TREES
DOWN
0845 PM RAYVILLE LA WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97 RICHLAND TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
0845 PM YAZOO CITY MS .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97 YAZOO TREES DOWN
0945 PM POLKVILLE MS .88 INCH HAIL
05/27/97 SMITH TREES DOWN
1025 PM PELAHATCHIE MS 1 INCH HAIL
05/27/97 RANKIN PEA TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
1115 PM TERRY MS .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97 HINDS TREES DOWN
1200 AM HARPERVILLE MS WIND DAMAGE
05/28/97 SCOTT TREES DOWNLocal storm report, May 28, 3:57 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
349 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0755 PM METCALF MS WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97 WASHINGTON TRAILER DESTROYED...TREES
DOWN
0845 PM RAYVILLE LA WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97 RICHLAND TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
0845 PM YAZOO CITY MS .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97 YAZOO TREES DOWN
0945 PM POLKVILLE MS .88 INCH HAIL
05/27/97 SMITH TREES DOWN
1025 PM PELAHATCHIE MS 1 INCH HAIL
05/27/97 RANKIN PEA TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
1115 PM TERRY MS .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97 HINDS TREES DDOWN
1200 AM HARPERVILLE MS WIND DAMAGE
05/28/97 SCOTT TREES DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Richland | 40 min |
| May 27, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Richland | 34 min |
| May 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison | 50 min |
| May 28, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia | 45 min |
| May 28, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 51 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 1997Every 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.