Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2003, 1:48 PM CDT for Forrest County, Lamar 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 27, 2003, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 4:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 271849 FFWJAN MSC035-073-272150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 148 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 450 PM CDT * AT 148 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR HATTIESBURG AND 5 MILES EAST OF OLOH. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. 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 3106 8961 3096 8916 3143 8917 3143 8964 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KJAN 271954 FFSJAN MSC035-073-272150- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 249 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR... FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FORREST AND LAMAR COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI CONTINUES. A WEAK SURFACE LOW PRESSURE AREA HAS DEVELOPED JUST NORTH OF A STATIONARY FRONT THAT IS LOCATED OVER A LINE THAT EXTENDS FROM HATTIESBURG TO OLOH. THE CIRCULATION AROUND THE LOW AND ALONG THE FRONT IS ALLOWING FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED UP TO TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST HOUR. $$
000 WGUS74 KJAN 272202 FFSJAN MSC035-073-272300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 458 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING EXPIRED AT 450 PM CDT FOR... FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AT 455 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES FROM MARION TO FORREST COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. STORM TOTALS OF UP TO 3 INCHES WERE ESTIMATED BY DOPPLER RADAR IN THE HATTIESBURG AREA AND JUST SOUTH OF BAXTERVILLE IN SOUTHERN LAMAR COUNTY. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO SHOULD BE ONLY ABOUT A TENTH OF AN INCH. UNLESS RENEWED HEAVY RAINS OCCUR...HIGH WATERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO RECEDE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. $$ CRAVEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 10:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin | 3 hr |
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.