Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2004, 6:26 PM CDT for Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 119 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
- Jul 8, 2004, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2004, 8:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chicot County, AR
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 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 082329 FFWJAN ARC017-090125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 626 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 825 PM CDT * AT 626 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR LAKE VILLAGE... THAT WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES WERE FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO AVOID AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. DO NOT DRIVE CARS THROUGH WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS. LAT...LON 3337 9141 3308 9143 3305 9125 3341 9118 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KJAN 090038 FFSJAN ARC017-090130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 732 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 825 PM CDT FOR... CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS *AT 732 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTHERN CHICOT COUNTY. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER ASHLEY COUNTY AND MOVING INTO THE AREA. RAINFALL RATES WILL REMAIN FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. FLOODING IS VERY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT...MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO AVOID AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. DO NOT DRIVE CARS INTO WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. $$
000 WGUS74 KJAN 090044 FFSJAN ARC017-090125- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 740 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 825 PM CDT FOR... CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AT 740 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS MOVED INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF CHICOT COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE DRIFTING SOUTHWEST AROUND 5 MPH. AT THIS RATE...HEAVY RAINFALL SHOULD MOVE OUT OF CHICOT COUNTY BY ABOUT 815 PM CDT. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN JUST OVER AN HOURS TIME FROM 3 WEST TO 3 NORTHWEST OF EUDORA. HOWEVER...NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED THUS FAR. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS HAS LIKELY OCCURRED IN SOME RURAL AREAS...SO CAUTION IS ADVISED ALONG HIGHWAY 8 WEST OF EUDORA. REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN WATER IS ENCOUNTERED ON ROADWAYS. $$ CRAVEN
000 WGUS74 KJAN 090119 FFSJAN ARC017-090130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 817 PM CDT THU JUL 8 2004 FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 825 PM CDT FOR... CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED OUT THE COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES HAVE DECREASED...SO THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.