Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2001, 10:35 AM CDT for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 115 min. 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, 10:35 AM CDT (15:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2001, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hinds County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 17 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 031538
FFWJAN
MSC049-031730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1035 AM CDT MON SEP 3 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT
* AT 1035 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CLINTON. THE AREA OF
HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF...TWO TO THREE INCHES HAVE
FALLEN SINCE 930 AM. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS AROUND TWO INCHES ARE LIKELY
BY 1130 AM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS
OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
LAT...LON 3243 9027 3243 9045 3213 9031 3222 9020
3226 9022 3236 9014The 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, 9:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 10:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 2 hr |
| 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
Flash 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.