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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Jackson, MS

November 27, 2001Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Nov 27, 2001, 10:16 PM CST for Lauderdale 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Nov 27, 2001, 10:16 PM CST (04:16 UTC)
Expired
Nov 28, 2001, 1:15 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2001-11-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2001-11-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-331 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KJAN 280417
FFWJAN
MSC075-280715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1016 PM CST TUE NOV 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 115 AM CST

* AT 1016 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MERIDIAN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF...ONE TO TWO INCHES HAS FALLEN 
SINCE 9 PM. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES IS POSSIBLE BY MIDNIGHT.

LAUDERDALE COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTS SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED IN 
MERIDIAN.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

LAT...LON 3242 8884 3228 8872 3239 8842 3255 8864

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.