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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Jackson, MS

July 14, 1998Carroll County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT for Carroll County, Mississippi. It was in force for 85 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
Jul 14, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1998, 6:35 PM CDT
In force
85 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Carroll County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1998-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1561 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1998-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1561 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 142212 COR
FFWJAN
MSC015-142335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
510 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 635 PM CDT

* AT 500 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 4
  INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY
  ASSOCIATED WITH VERY STRONG SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT
  IS SLOWLY WEST.

* VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES BETWEEN COILA AND VAIDEN AND ALONG
  HIGHWAY 43O. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL
  CAUSE POOR DRAINAGE AND RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING WITH
  LITTLE ADVANCE NOTICE.

  DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

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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, Jul 14, 4:55 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
455 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1998

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

0145 PM    MEADVILLE                 MS   FLOODING
07/14/98   FRANKLIN                       FLOODING ON HIGHWAY 84
                                          NEAR MEADVILLE, CAUSING AN
                                          ACCIDENT. REPORTED BY
                                          FRANKLIN S.O.

0330 PM    JACKSON                   MS   FLOODING
07/14/98   HINDS                          NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED
                                          REPORTED BY HINDS EOC IN
                                          NORTH JACKSON

0345 PM    JACKSON                   MS   FLOODING
07/14/98   HINDS                          HANGING MOSS AND PURPLE
                                          CREEKS IN FLOOD. RIDGEWOOD
                                          AND ADKINS ROADS FLOODED
                                          REPORTED BY HINDS EOC.

0350 PM    JACKSON                   MS   FLOODING
07/14/98   HINDS                          WATER REPORTED IN HOUSE
                                          AND APARTMENT COMPLEX ON
                                          RIDGEWOOD ROAD. REPORTED
                                          BY HINDS EOC.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 12:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJANFranklin95 min
Jul 14, 3:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJANHinds, Madison2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.