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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Jackson, MS

November 8, 2000Copiah County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Nov 8, 2000, 11:01 PM CST for Copiah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 119 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: Nov 8, 2000, 11:01 PM CST (05:01 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Copiah County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 1244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 8.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KJAN 090505
FFWJAN
MSC029-090700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1101 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  COPIAH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 100 AM CST

* AT 1101 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING 
NORTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. RAINFALL OF UP TO 6 INCHES HAS 
BEEN REPORTED OVER COPIAH THIS EVENING...RESULTING IN FLOODED 
ROADWAYS. FURTHER HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION AND 
RESULT IN FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. 

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

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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.

NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 8, 9:15 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 9:15 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
915 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000

UPDATED ZONES DECREASE THE RAIN CHANCES IN THE FAR WESTERN ZONES.
ALSO REMOVED ANY REFERENCES TO TORNADO WATCH ^NUMBERS 787 AND 788 IN
WORDING.

.JAN...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 8, 6:55 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
655 PM CST TUE NOV 08 2000

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

0530 PM    CARLISLE                  MS   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/00   CLAIBORNE                      SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN

0621 PM    1 S BRANDON               MS   .75 INCH HAIL
11/08/00   RANKIN                         DIME HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER
                                          ALONG HWY 18

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	37 min
Nov 8, 6:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	46 min
Nov 8, 7:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin	50 min
Nov 8, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	41 min
Nov 8, 7:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	47 min
Nov 8, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	48 min
Nov 8, 8:21 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	99 min
Nov 8, 8:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	115 min
Nov 8, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee, Winston	49 min
Nov 8, 10:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	2 hr
Nov 8, 10:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	47 min
Nov 8, 11:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	43 min
Nov 9, 12:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Leake, Madison, Rankin	105 min
Nov 9, 12:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	46 min
Nov 9, 12:54 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	3 hr
Nov 9, 12:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	32 min
Nov 9, 1:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	30 min
Nov 9, 1:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	50 min
Nov 9, 2:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	32 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.