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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2004, 6:54 AM CDT for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min. 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 1, 2004, 6:54 AM CDT (11:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2004, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KJAN 011154 FFWJAN MSC035-073-011245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 654 AM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 745 AM CDT * AT 654 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH ACROSS LAMAR AND FORREST COUNTIES. SEVERAL HOMES IN FORREST AND LAMAR COUNTIES HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED FLOODING THIS MORNING. IN ADDITION...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO AN INCH CAN BE EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM SUMRALL TO PURVIS... INCLUDING THE HATTIESBURG AREA. VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON. LAT...LON 3143 8914 3106 8915 3125 8951 3144 8966 $$ 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar, Marion | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 5:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 56 min |
| Jun 1, 8:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jun 1, 8:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones, Lamar | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 19 min |
| Jun 1, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 27 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2004Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.