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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2004Carroll County, Holmes County, Montgomery County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 2004, 8:17 PM CST for Carroll County, Holmes County, Montgomery County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2004, 8:17 PM CST (02:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Montgomery County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KJAN 060219
FFWJAN
MSC015-051-097-060515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
817 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1115 PM CST

* AT 817 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY TO 
HOLMES COUNTY...  THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

RADAR INDICATED THAT 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND AN 
ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS IN A FEW 
HOURS.

FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS...DRAINAGE DITCHES...AND LOW-LYING AREAS 
IS EXPECTED. BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL OF FLASH FLOODING AT NIGHT.  DO 
NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3358 8960 3356 8960 3351 8967 3349 8967
          3300 9026 3303 9026 3358 8960 3359 8960
          3365 8953 3365 8952

$$

CRAVEN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KJAN 060351
FFSJAN
MSC015-051-097-060550-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
951 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004

FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR...

CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

UNTIL 1115 PM CST.

AT 948 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF HEAVY SHOWERS ACROSS 
MONTGOMERY AND EASTERN CARROLL AND HOLMES COUNTIES. THE INDIVIDUAL 
SHOWERS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH...WHILE THE AREA OF 
RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 15 MPH.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE WARNED 
COUNTIES THIS EVENING. THIS HAS CAUSED SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING 
AREAS...PARTICULARLY ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM HOLMES COUNTY. THE 
RAIN WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THROUGH 1115 PM...BUT RUNOFF FROM 
RAINFALL THIS EVENING WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 
LOW LYING AREAS.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 6:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	46 min
Mar 5, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	27 min
Mar 5, 6:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	41 min
Mar 5, 6:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	26 min
Mar 5, 7:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	44 min
Mar 5, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	16 min
Mar 5, 7:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw	47 min
Mar 5, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	28 min
Mar 5, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	26 min
Mar 5, 8:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	17 min
Mar 5, 11:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.