Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Apr 27, 1997, 2:56 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. 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
- Apr 27, 1997, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 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 271958 FFWJAN MSC075-272200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 256 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 LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY AT 255 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAIN ACROSS EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. OFF AND ON RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT UP TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN PARTS OF THE LAUDERDALE COUNTY AREA SINCE MIDNIGHT. SOME FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED...INCLUDING MOBILE HOMES BEING MOVED OFF THEIR MOUNTINGS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...AS WELL AS SEVERAL ROADS BEING UNDERWATER. CONTINUED RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER RAIN...AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO A HALF INCH FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON...WILL AGGRAVATE FLOODING PROBLEMS. 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. < 65
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, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton, Smith | 105 min |
| Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 105 min |
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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.