Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1997, 8:40 AM CDT for Marion 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
- Jun 18, 1997, 8:40 AM CDT (13:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1997, 11:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 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 181342 FFWJAN MSC091-181645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 840 AM CDT WED JUN 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...MARION COUNTY AT 835 AM MARION COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTS THAT DOWNTOWN COLUMBIA HAD BEEN CLOSED FROM HIGH WATER ON THE ORDER OF TWO FEET. A DOZEN BUSINESSES ALSO WERE INUNDATED WITH WATER. ALSO SEVERAL STREETS WERE CLOSED IN AND AROUND COLUMBIA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THE COUNTY THIS MORNING PRODUCING RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO ONE-HALF INCH. THESE AMOUNTS WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE RUNOFF. 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. < 74 &
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, Jun 18, 5:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
545 AM CDT WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 AM COLUMBIA MS FLOODING
06/18/97 MARION FLOODING AROUND
COLUMBIA...WATER ENTERING
SOME HOMES/BUSINESSES.
PART OF RTE 587 FLOODED.
BRIDGE WASHED OUT ON JOHN
THORNHILL RD OFF RTE 586.Local storm report, Jun 18, 5:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
545 AM CDT WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 AM COLUMBIA MS FLOODING
06/18/97 MARION FLOODING AROUND
COLUMBIA...WATER ENTERING
SOME HOMES/BUSINESSES.
$ PART OF RTE 587 FLOODED.
BRIDGE WASHED OUT ON JOHN
THORNHILL RD OFF RTE 586.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 4:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Marion | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 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.