Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2001, 9:27 AM CDT for Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 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
- Sep 3, 2001, 9:27 AM CDT (14:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2001, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Rankin County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 782 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 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 031429
FFWJAN
MSC121-031630-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
927 AM CDT MON SEP 3 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
* AT 927 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
PELAHATCHIE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRANDON...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF...TWO TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES
HAVE OCCURRED SINCE 830 AM. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE
INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 1030 AM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.
LAT...LON 3251 8996 3244 9004 3236 9011 3213 8974
3232 8973 3248 8976The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Madison | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 4 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Madison | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Simpson | 115 min |
| Sep 3, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 10:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 10:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds | 115 min |
| Sep 3, 10:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jasper, Simpson, Smith | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 10:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 115 min |
| Sep 3, 1:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 119 min |
| Sep 3, 5:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 2 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.