Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2003, 6:12 PM CDT for Marion 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
- Jun 13, 2003, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marion County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 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 KJAN 132314 FFWJAN MSC091-140215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 612 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 612 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA TO 12 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH ABOUT 8 PM...WITH STORM TOTALS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...SECONDARY ROADS...CREEKS...AND DRAINAGE DITCHES IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY...IT MAY BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS. LAT...LON 3143 8967 3133 9005 3114 9000 3120 8966 $$ CRAVEN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KJAN 140050 FFSJAN MSC091-140215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 745 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT 915 PM CDT FOR... MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AT 745 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS MUCH OF MARION COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN SHOULD BE OVER BY 9 PM THIS EVENING...WITH ANOTHER HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. STORM TOTALS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES LIKELY RESULTED IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...CREEKS...AND DRAINAGE DITCHES. FLOODING AT NIGHT IS PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT DRIVE VEHICLES INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. $$ CRAVEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Simpson | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Scott | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 58 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2003Every 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.