Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 90, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2003, 5:08 PM CDT for Jones 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, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jones County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 302212 FFWJAN MSC067-010415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 508 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 508 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 12 MILES WEST OF LAUREL TO 29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELLISVILLE. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. A BAND OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY REMAIN OVER THE JONES COUNTY AREA FOR SEVERAL HOURS WITH RAIN ACCUMULATING AT THE RATE OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH PER HOUR. EASTERN PORTIONS OF JONES COUNTY HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE 24 HOURS. ANOTHER 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN THIS EVENING ON SATURATED GROUNDS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS...SECONDARY ROADS...AND LOW LYING AREAS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. LAT...LON 3179 8939 3145 8937 3146 8894 3180 8894 $$ CRAVEN
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KJAN 010105 FFSJAN MSC067-010400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 758 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR... JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. HOURLY RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO HALF AN INCH HAVE RESULTED IN AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST FEW HOURS...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN JONES COUNTY. STORM TOTALS IN THE PAST 36 HOURS NOW EXCEED 5 INCHES IN SOUTHEAST JONES COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING OVER JONES COUNTY. FLOODING OF STREAMS...CREEKS...DRAINAGE DITCHES...SECONDARY ROADS...AND LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH THE EVENING. $$ CRAVEN
000 WGUS74 KJAN 010317 FFSJAN MSC067-010415- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1008 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR... JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AT 1005 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES OVER JONES COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES HAVE INCREASED IN THE PAST HOUR...WITH HOURLY ACCUMULATIONS ABOVE HALF AN INCH AT PINE BELT REGIONAL AIRPORT NEAR MOSELLE. STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS DURING THE PAST 36 HOURS ALONG HIGHWAY 15 NEAR OVETT HAVE EXCEEDED 7 INCHES. EVEN HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS APPROACHING JONES COUNTY FROM THE SOUTH...WITH HOURLY ACCUMULATIONS LIKELY TO INCREASE ABOVE AN INCH PER HOUR OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. FLOODING OF STREAMS...CREEKS...SECONDARY ROADS...AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE. $$ CRAVEN
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, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke | 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 |
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.