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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Dec 19, 2002, 2:09 AM CST for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2002, 2:09 AM CST (08:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2002, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bolivar County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 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 190809
FFWJAN
MSC011-191200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
207 AM CST THU DEC 19 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 600 AM CST
* AT 207 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES SOUTH OF
GUNNISON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF ROSEDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH.
RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE FALLEN SINCE
1 AM. MORE HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE OVER THIS SAME AREA WITH 1 TO 2
INCHES OF RAIN EXPECTED PER HOUR. OVERALL...RAINFALL TOTALS OF 3 TO
5 INCHES MAY BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 6 AM.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.
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 3395 9098 3375 9097 3361 9108 3370 9069
3411 9067 3411 9082The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 58 min |
| Dec 19, 6:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 2 hr |
| Dec 19, 8:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 24 min |
| Dec 19, 8:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 47 min |
| Dec 19, 9:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 46 min |
| Dec 19, 9:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Dec 19, 9:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah | 27 min |
| Dec 19, 10:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 10:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 19 min |
| Dec 19, 10:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 45 min |
| Dec 19, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 29 min |
| Dec 19, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Dec 19, 10:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 44 min |
| Dec 19, 10:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 32 min |
| Dec 19, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 11:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 11:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 43 min |
| Dec 19, 11:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 11:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 42 min |
| Dec 19, 12:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 27 min |
| Dec 19, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 31 min |
| Dec 19, 1:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 46 min |
| Dec 19, 1:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 43 min |
| Dec 19, 1:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 1:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 43 min |
| Dec 19, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 25 min |
| Dec 19, 1:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 61 min |
| Dec 19, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 26 min |
| Dec 19, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 40 min |
| Dec 19, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 31 min |
| Dec 19, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 35 min |
| Dec 19, 2:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 31 min |
| Dec 19, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 30 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.