Alert archive / Louisiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 2001, 1:32 AM CST for Catahoula Parish, Concordia Parish, Louisiana; Adams County, Jefferson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 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
- Mar 2, 2001, 1:32 AM CST (07:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2001, 4:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Jefferson County, MS
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 020733
FFWJAN
LAC025-029-MSC001-063-021030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
132 AM CST FRI MAR 2 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CATAHOULA PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
CONCORDIA PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
* UNTIL 430 AM CST
* AT 132 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THIS HEAVY
RAIN WILL FALL IN THE SAME AREAS WHICH HAVE RECEIVED SEVERAL
INCHES OF RAIN SINCE THURSDAY EVENING...LEADING TO FLASH FLOODING.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
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LAT...LON 3121 9159 3123 9150 3133 9147 3137 9132
3135 9116 3163 9116 3175 9133 3153 9150
3129 9150 3126 9164 3147 9181 3175 9154
3196 9159 3159 9196The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 9:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 7:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 7:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 40 min |
| Mar 1, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 9:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 10:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence | 117 min |
| Mar 2, 1:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 12:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 1:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 51 min |
| Mar 2, 1:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 29 min |
| Mar 2, 2:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 2:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 2:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 92 min |
| Mar 2, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 56 min |
| Mar 2, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 3:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2001Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.