Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 2, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hinds County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 022333 FFWJAN MSC049-030130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 630 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTH JACKSON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN JACKSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 5 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR OVER THE AREA FROM THE DOWNTOWN AREA WEST TO INTERSTATE 220. THE RAINS SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER 8 PM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. 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 3241 9033 3213 9046 3207 9025 3238 9017 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KJAN 030027 FFSJAN MSC049-030130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 721 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR... EASTERN HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AT 720 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE NEARLY STATIONARY VERY HEAVY RAINS OVER NORTHEAST JACKSON WHILE THE RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED OVER SOUTH JACKSON. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH PER HOUR SHOULD BEGIN DIMINISHING OVER THE THE METRO AREA AFTER 8 PM. VERY HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. $$
000 WGUS74 KJAN 030120 FFSJAN MSC049-030130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 817 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR... HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AT 815 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE NEARLY STATIONARY RAINS HAVE GREATLY DIMINISHED TO SPRINKLES OVER MOST OF THE METRO JACKSON AREA. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL SHOULD BE LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH. HAWKINS FIELD REPORTED NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAIN BETWEEN 630 AND 730 PM WITH WIND GUSTS OF CLOSE TO 30 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED THE HEAVIEST RAINS THAT FELL BETWEEN HAWKINS AND THE METRO CENTER MALL AREA TOTALLED 2 TO 3 INCHES. $$
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.