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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2001, 1:14 PM CDT for Hinds County, 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, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2001, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hinds County, MS, Rankin County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 031815 FFWJAN MSC049-121-032015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 114 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 114 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM UTICA TO 8 MILES EAST OF FLORENCE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF...THREE TO FOUR INCHES HAVE FALLEN SINCE 1215 PM. AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES IS POSSIBLE BY 215 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. LAT...LON 3218 9073 3225 8975 3206 8973 3206 9072
The 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, 10:35 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, 1:31 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.