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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Jackson, MS

January 24, 2002Bolivar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jan 24, 2002, 8:52 AM CST for Bolivar 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 24, 2002, 8:52 AM CST (14:52 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 2002, 11:45 AM CST
In force: 3 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), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 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 241452
FFWJAN
MSC011-241745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
852 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1145 AM CST

* AT 852 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH COULD PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL 
  OF ALMOST 1.5 INCHES...CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS BOLIVAR 
  COUNTY.  WITH AN ALREADY SATURATED GROUND...CONTINUED 
  RAINFALL THIS MORNING COULD PRODUCE ADDITIONAL FLOODING.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3385 9109 3355 9119 3363 9067 3401 9067

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KJAN 241721
FFSJAN
MSC011-241745-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1120 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002

FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR...

BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1145 AM.

RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS 
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF BOLIVAR COUNTY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING 
INTO SOUTHERN BOLIVAR COUNTY AND WILL DEPOSIT AN ADDITIONAL 1 INCH.

FLOODING WAS ALREADY REPORTED IN CLEVELAND AND WITH ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL...FLOODING WILL CONTINUE. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS 
AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND 
PROPERTY.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 3:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	27 min
Jan 24, 6:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Sunflower	3 hr
Jan 24, 6:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	3 hr
Jan 24, 7:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leflore	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:10 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Washington	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll	3 hr
Jan 24, 9:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Sunflower	3 hr
Jan 24, 10:01 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	3 hr
Jan 24, 11:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Washington	3 hr
Jan 24, 11:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	51 min
Jan 24, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	49 min
Jan 24, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	42 min
Jan 24, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	59 min
Jan 24, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	34 min
Jan 24, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah	49 min
Jan 24, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Simpson, Smith	54 min
Jan 24, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	29 min
Jan 24, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	35 min
Jan 24, 2:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	35 min
Jan 24, 2:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	32 min
Jan 24, 3:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Marion, Smith	25 min
Jan 24, 3:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	23 min
Jan 24, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	50 min
Jan 24, 3:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	29 min
Jan 24, 3:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar	36 min
Jan 24, 3:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Smith	42 min
Jan 24, 3:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	39 min
Jan 24, 3:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	32 min
Jan 24, 3:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	40 min
Jan 24, 3:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	33 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.