Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT for Clarke County, Mississippi. It was in force for 6 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 30, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2003, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clarke County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1046 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 300701 FFWJAN MSC023-301300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 200 AM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 800 AM CDT * AT 200 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUITMAN. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH TEH PASSAGE OF THE HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. LAT...LON 3220 8887 3190 8889 3192 8851 3219 8848 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KJAN 301105 FFSJAN MSC023-301300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 600 AM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 8 AM. AT 600 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN JUST SOUTH OF CLARKE COUNTY MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS AREA OF RAIN WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING RAINFALL AMOUNTS NEAR 1 INCH AN HOUR. CERTAIN AREAS ACROSS CLARKE COUNTY HAVE SEEN 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FROM STORMS SUNDAY EVENING. MORE STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...ADDITIONAL RAINS FROM THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY ADD ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 8 AM. $$
000 WGUS74 KJAN 301255 FFSJAN MSC023-301300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 755 AM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CLARKE COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 AM. THE AREA OF RAIN THAT IS MOVING THROUGH CLARK COUNTY IS NOT VERY HEAVY AND ONLY ONE QUARTER INCH IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT HOUR. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS MORNING WHICH COULD INCREASE THE FLOODING POTENTIAL. EVERYONE SHOULD STAY INFORMED TO LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS HEAVY RAIN EVENT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 11:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jones | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Grenada | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 4:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar, Marion | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jones | 6 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.