Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Feb 5, 2004, 5:05 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 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
- Feb 5, 2004, 5:05 PM CST (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2004, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lauderdale County, MS, Newton County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 547 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 845 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KJAN 052307 FFWJAN MSC075-101-060300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 505 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NEWTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 505 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER LAUDERDALE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN NEWTON COUNTY AS WELL. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE RAPID RISES ON STREAMS AND CREEKS...AND WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF 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 3254 8924 3226 8927 3228 8845 3258 8845 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KJAN 052340 FFSJAN MSC075-101-060235- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 537 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR... NEWTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 9 PM CST. AT 537 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN ACROSS LAUDERDALE AND EASTERN NEWTON COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREA AS THEY MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST. AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN 25 MINUTES AT KEY FIELD IN MERIDIAN...AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 430 PM AND 530 PM OVER WESTERN LAUDERDALE AND EASTERN NEWTON COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL LIKELY OCCUR THIS EVENING...PARTICULARLY ACROSS WESTERN LAUDERDALE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEWTON COUNTIES. THIS COULD CAUSE SERIOUS FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS AND ROADWAYS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO FLOODED AREAS $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Madison, Yazoo | 42 min |
| Feb 5, 6:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 60 min |
| Feb 5, 7:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Jefferson | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 7:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 60 min |
| Feb 5, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Feb 5, 8:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Feb 5, 8:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 9:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin | 29 min |
| Feb 5, 9:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Feb 5, 9:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 9:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 9:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 19 min |
| Feb 5, 10:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Simpson | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 10:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 50 min |
| Feb 5, 10:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 11:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 11:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Smith | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 12:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 32 min |
| Feb 5, 12:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 12:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Newton | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 1:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 1:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 55 min |
| Feb 5, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 48 min |
| Feb 5, 1:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 66 min |
| Feb 5, 1:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 2:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 2:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 37 min |
| Feb 5, 2:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 43 min |
| Feb 5, 2:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln, Rankin, Simpson | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 43 min |
| Feb 5, 3:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 4:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 4:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jasper, Smith | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 49 min |
| Feb 5, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 30 min |
| Feb 5, 5:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 36 min |
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.