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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Jackson, MS

June 29, 2003Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2003, 6:27 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 118 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
Jun 29, 2003, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2003, 8:25 PM CDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2003-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2003-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 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 292327
FFWJAN
MSC075-300125-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
627 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 825 PM CDT

* AT 625 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED      
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MERIDIAN. AT KEY
  FIELD IN MERIDIAN NEARLY 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS BEEN RECORDED IN THE 
  PAST 15 FALLEN. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN IS MOVING TO THE NORTH 
  AT AROUND 15 MPH.
   

LAT...LON 3227 8877 3228 8855 3256 8842 3256 8885

$$

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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.