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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1997, 3:27 PM CDT for Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 13, 1997, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tensas Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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
- 2216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 132028 FFWJAN LAC107-132230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 327 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...TENSAS PARISH AT 323 PM...JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY STATIONARY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS JUST NORTHWEST OF ST. JOSEPH. THIS STORM HAS SHOWN LITTLE MOVEMENT OVER THE PAST HOUR AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT AS MUCH AS THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THIS AREA WITHIN THE PAST HOUR. AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM OVER THE NEXT HOUR...CAUSING FLOODING OF LOW-LYING STRETCHES OF ROADWAY AND POORLY-DRAINED AREAS. 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. < 69/78
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, Jul 13, 9:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066- 072>074-140400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES RISE INTO THE LOW TO MID 90S. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AND THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SP^OTTERS... HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066- 072>074-140400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES RISE INTO THE LOW TO MID 90S. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AND THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS... HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 48 min |
Nearby
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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.