Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 3, 2001, 6:35 AM CST for Pearl River County, Mississippi; Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2001, 6:35 AM CST (12:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2001, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KLIX 031237 FFWNEW LAC103-MSC109-031600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 635 AM CST SAT MAR 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ST. TAMMANY PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...COVINGTON...MANDEVILLE...SLIDELL PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PICAYUNE...POPLARVILLE * UNTIL 1000 AM CST * AT 635 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR COVINGTON...AND FROM CENTRAL LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN TO JUST EAST OF MANDEVILLE...TO NEAR LACOMBE AND SLIDELL...TO PICAYUNE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THIS AREA MOST OF THE MORNING WITH THE HEAVY RAIN CAUSING ADDITIONAL FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NA/TIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 1:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 9:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 24 min |
| Mar 3, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 60 min |
| Mar 3, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Saint Charles | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 8:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Bernard | 26 min |
| Mar 3, 12:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Terrebonne | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 12:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Bernard | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 40 min |
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.