Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2004, 5:10 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Winston 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
- Jun 30, 2004, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2004, 7:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Choctaw County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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
- 515 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 302213 FFWJAN MSC019-159-010010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 510 PM CDT WED JUN 30 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI WESTERN WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 710 PM CDT * AT 510 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN CHOCTAW AND WESTERN WINSTON COUNTIES...MAINLY SOUTH OF ACKERMAN AND WEST OF LOUISVILLE. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE AND A HALF TO THREE INCHES BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM HAVE BEEN INDICATED OVER THIS AREA. WITH THE GROUND SATURATED...THIS RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUNOFF INTO AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS. FLOODING OF ROADWAYS IS LIKELY...PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA NEAR HIGHWAY 405. LAT...LON 3329 8929 3306 8931 3298 8915 3328 8902 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KJAN 302348 FFSJAN MSC019-159-010030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 645 PM CDT WED JUN 30 2004 FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 710 PM CDT FOR... SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI WESTERN WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AT 644 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS ACROSS THE WARNING AREA HAD WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST. BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNING AREA EARLIER THIS EVENING...AND THIS PRODUCED FLASH FLOODING OF BACKROADS AND WASHED OUT CULVERTS OVER SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY. HOWEVER...THE RAIN HAS DIMINISHED AND THIS SHOULD ALLOW CONDITIONS TO GRADUALLY IMPROVE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 105 min |
| Jun 29, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 117 min |
| Jun 30, 3:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.