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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2003Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 2003, 4:16 PM CST for Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2003, 4:16 PM CST (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2003, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hinds County, MS, Rankin County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 13 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: 890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 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 052220
FFWJAN
MSC049-121-060015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
416 PM CST WED MAR 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 416 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE JACKSON 
METRO AREA...EXTENDING BACK TO EASTERN LOUISIANA.

RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF...ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES.
AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED BY 6 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER 
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. SOILS ACROSS THE METRO
AREA ARE SATURATED. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE RUNOFF ESPECIALLY
IN LOW LYING AREAS. 

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 3272 8980 3209 8982 3208 9062 3259 9032

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KJAN 052256
FFSJAN
MSC049-121-060015-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
455 PM CST WED MAR 5 2003

FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR...

HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

AT 455 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS 
PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN OVER MUCH OF RANKIN COUNTY. ANOTHER 
CLUSTER OF STORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER WESTERN HINDS 
COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

SURFACE REPORTS AND DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT BETWEEN 1 
AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN ABOUT AN HOUR HAS OCCURRED OVER MANY PARTS 
OF THE WARNED AREA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS 
HAVE REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN FLORENCE...BYRAM...AND SOUTH 
JACKSON. AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA 
TH ROUGH 615 PM...ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS CAN BE EXPECTED.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO FLOODED AREAS.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE 
GREATER THAN YOU REALIZE...AND COULD CAUSE YOUR VEHICLE TO BE SWEPT 
AWAY. 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Rankin	38 min
Mar 5, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	41 min
Mar 5, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	45 min
Mar 5, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	34 min
Mar 5, 5:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	45 min
Mar 5, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	57 min
Mar 5, 5:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	42 min
Mar 5, 5:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	30 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.