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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Jackson, MS

May 29, 1998Bolivar County, Washington County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1998, 4:33 AM CDT for Bolivar County, Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 92 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 29, 1998, 4:33 AM CDT (09:33 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1998, 6:05 AM CDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bolivar County, MS, Washington County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1879 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 290933
FFWJAN
MSC011-151-291105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
433 AM CDT FRI MAY 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI
  NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 605 AM CDT

* AT 430 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES NORTH OF GREENVILLE...
  MOVING VERY LITTLE.

* DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD
  FALLEN OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST BOLIVAR AND EXTREME NORTHWEST
  WASHINGTON COUNTIES BETWEEN 330 AM AND 430 AM. WITH THE SLOW
  MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS IN THE AREA...ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL
  MAY PRODUCE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS. FLOODING
  IS ALSO POSSIBLE ALONG DEER CREEK IN SOUTHERN BOLIVAR AND
  NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGER OF FLOODING.

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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 28, 11:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1100 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998

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

0709 PM    2 N INDIANOLA             MS   1 INCH HAIL
05/28/98   SUNFLOWER                      REPORTED BY LEFLORE S.O.

0828 PM    STRINGER                  MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/98   JASPER                         REPORTED BY MERIDIAN MHP

0840 PM    TAYLORSVILLE              MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/98   SMITH                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          8 NE TAYLORSVILLE ON HWY
                                          531 REPORTED BY MERIDIAN
                                          MHP

0840 PM    3 S MIZE                  MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/98   SMITH                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN..REPORTED BY MERIDIAN
                                          MHP

0840 PM    4 W MIZE                  MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/98   SMITH                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          ON HWY 28..REPORTED BY
                                          MERIDIAN MHP

0845 PM    BROWNSVILLE               MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/98   HINDS                          REPORTED BY HINDS S.O.

0630 PM    SWIFTOWN                  MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/98   LEFLORE                        REPORTED BY GREENWOOD MHP

Local storm report, May 28, 11:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1100 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998

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

0709 PM    2 N INDIANOLA             MS   1 INCH HAIL
05/28/98   SUNFLOWER                      REPORTED BY LEFLORE S.O.

0828 PM    STRINGER                  MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/98   JASPER                         REPORTED BY MERIDIAN MHP

0840 PM    TAYLORSVILLE              MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/98   SMITH                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          8 NE TAYLORSVILLE ON HWY
                                          531 REPORTED BY MERIDIAN
                                          MHP

0840 PM    3 S MIZE                  MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/98   SMITH                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN..REPORTED BY MERIDIAN
                                          MHP

0840 PM    4 W MIZE                  MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/98   SMITH                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          ON HWY 28..REPORTED BY
                                          MERIDIAN MHP

0845 PM    BROWNSVILLE               MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/98   HINDS                          REPORTED BY HINDS S.O.

0630 PM    SWIFTOWN                  MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/98   LEFLORE                        REPORTED BY GREENWOOD MHP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	32 min
May 28, 7:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Yazoo	2 hr
May 28, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	48 min
May 28, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	52 min
May 28, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	50 min
May 28, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	47 min
May 28, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	51 min
May 28, 7:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Humphreys	2 hr
May 28, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah	48 min
May 28, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	49 min
May 28, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	47 min
May 28, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	49 min
May 28, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	47 min
May 28, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	48 min
May 28, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	48 min
May 28, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	118 min
May 28, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Montgomery	118 min
May 28, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	51 min
May 28, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	49 min
May 28, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	48 min
May 28, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	49 min
May 28, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	49 min
May 28, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	50 min
May 28, 10:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	34 min
May 29, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	50 min
May 29, 3:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala	89 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.