Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2003, 10:19 PM CDT for Rankin 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 26, 2003, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rankin County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 270323 FFWJAN MSC121-270630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1019 PM CDT THU JUN 26 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1019 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 12 MILES WEST OF PUCKETT... OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF BRANDON. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN A SMALL AREA 3 TO 4 MILES NORTH OF PINEY WOODS IN SOUTHERN RANKIN COUNTY. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES IN THE AREA...WITH POTENTIAL FOR STORM TOTALS OF AROUND 6 INCHES. THE HILLY TERRAIN IN THIS AREA SUGGESTS THAT FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY BE RATHER SIGNIFICANT IN A SMALL AREA BETWEEN PUCKETT AND FLORENCE. FLASH FLOODING AT NIGHT IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. LAT...LON 3213 9007 3206 9002 3207 8978 3228 8988 $$ CRAVEN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KJAN 270508 FFSJAN MSC121-270630- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1205 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR... RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AT MIDNIGHT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT MUCH OF THE RAIN HAD MOVED AWAY FROM RANKIN COUNTY. JUST A FEW SHOWERS WERE LEFT ALONG INTERSTATE 20 FROM BRANDON TO THE SCOTT COUNTY LINE. RADAR INDICATED THAT UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER A SMALL AREA BETWEEN STAR AND PUCKETT IN A HILLY AREA OF SOUTHERN RANKIN COUNTY. THUS...FLOODING OF AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS LIKELY OCCURRED. HOWEVER...WITHOUT ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT...THE HIGH WATERS WILL CONTINUE TO RECEDE OVERNIGHT. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EITHER BE CANCELLED EARLY OR ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 130 AM UNLESS RENEWED HEAVY RAINS ARE ANTICIPATED. $$ CRAVEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 3 hr |
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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.