Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2001, 1:31 PM CDT for Claiborne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 119 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, 1:31 PM CDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Claiborne County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 031833
FFWJAN
MSC021-032030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
131 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CLAIBORNE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 131 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CLAIBORNE COUNTY...AT 8 MILES
NORTH OF CARLISLE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TO 3 TO 4 INCHES HAS FALLEN
SINCE 1230 PM AND AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES IS EXPECTED BY 230 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 3198 9071 3220 9073 3215 9079 3215 9083
3212 9086 3200 9086The 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, 1:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 2 hr |
| 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.