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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 3, 2001, 12:45 PM CST for 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2001, 12:45 PM CST (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2001, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Copiah County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Madison County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Simpson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 1 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
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KJAN 031846
FFWJAN
MSC029-049-089-121-127-032245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1245 PM CST SAT MAR 3 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
SIMPSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
COPIAH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 445 PM CST
* AT 1243 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED LARGE
AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN TWO
AND SIX INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE FRIDAY. BETWEEN 1245 PM AND
5 PM...AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL FALL.
SINCE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED...AND CREEKS THROUGHOUT THE
REGION ARE ABOVE BANKFULL...THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL ONLY COMPOUND
THE FLOODING PROBLEM...INCLUDING ROADS AND URBAN AREAS.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER COVERED AREAS...AS MOST FLASH FLOOD
FATALITIES OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. STOP...TURN AROUND...AND GO
ANOTHER WAY.
LAT...LON 3232 9067 3173 9071 3178 9022 3184 8968
3202 8968 3217 8976 3236 8978 3269 8979
+3287 8977 3291 8992 3271 9008 3252 9048The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 12:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar, Marion | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Covington, Jasper, Jones | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar, Marion | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Covington, Jasper, Jones | 105 min |
| Mar 3, 7:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Smith | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 2:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 8 more | 3 hr |
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.