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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Jackson, MS

December 19, 2002Bolivar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Dec 19, 2002, 6:00 AM CST for Bolivar 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 19, 2002, 6:00 AM CST (12:00 UTC)
Expired: Dec 19, 2002, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 2 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 12:03 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 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 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 191200
FFWJAN
MSC011-191400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
559 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 800 AM CST

* AT 559 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  GUNNISON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF ROSEDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  40 MPH.

RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
SINCE 1 AM. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THESE SAME AREAS 
THROUGH 8 AM. SOME MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED BETWEEN ROSEDALE 
AND CLEVELAND. THROUGH 8 AM...AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF 
RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE.

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 3396 9099 3366 9102 3376 9068 3412 9068

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KJAN 191406
FFSJAN
MSC011-191505-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
804 AM CST THU DEC 19 2002

FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR...

BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

THE RAIN IS BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF OVER BOLIVAR COUNTY. THREE TO 
FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. 
EVEN THOUGH THE WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT THERE STILL COULD BE 
SOME MINOR FLOODING DUE THE RUNOFF.

REMEMBER DO NOT DRIVE YOUR AUTOMOBILE INTO STANDING OR RUNNING WATER.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 19, 2:09 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar	4 hr
Dec 19, 2:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	58 min
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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.