Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2004, 2:47 PM CDT for Lamar 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2004, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lamar County, MS
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KJAN 082001 FFWJAN MSC073-082300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 247 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR A DAM FAILURE IN... LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 120 PM CDT...THE YORKS LAKE DAM...NEAR YORK LANE AND BEACH ROAD FAILED...CAUSING FLASH FLOODING IN RURAL LAMAR COUNTY. YORKS LAKE DAM ON THE FIVE SPICE CREEK...UPSTREAM FROM GRANTHAM CREEK...AND HALF MOON CREEK WHICH FLOWS INTO THE LOWER LITTLE CREEK HAS GIVEN WAY. AT 245 PM CDT...WATER FROM 4 TO 6 FEET WAS FLOWING ALONG HALF MOON CREEK AND SHOULD APPROACH TATUM SALT-DOME ROAD AROUND 320 PM CDT. THE WAVE OF WATER AROUND 4 FEET SHOULD REACH CANEY CHURCH ROAD NEAR 4 PM CDT. PEOPLE ALONG THE MENTIONED STREAMS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS OR ANY REQUIRED EVACUATIONS. LAT...LON 3103 8962 3101 8945 3136 8938 3136 8960 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KJAN 082243 FFSJAN MSC073-082300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 540 PM CDT FRI OCT 8 2004 FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DAM FAILURE WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM FOR... LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI YORKS LAKE DAM ON THE FIVE SPICE CREEK...UPSTREAM FROM GRANTHAM CREEK FAILED TODAY AT 120 PM. THE FLOOD WATERS COVERED RL ANDERSON ROAD AFTER FAILURE AND PROCEEDED DOWN STREAM. NO FLOODING PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED SINCE 230 PM AS THE WATERS SEEM TO HAVE DISPERSED AS IT PROGRESSED DOWN STREAM. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 6 PM. LAT...LON 3124 8943 3106 8941 3106 8964 3128 8961 $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 8, 2:54 AM CDT, 11 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 2:54 AM CDT, 11 hours 53 minutes before
JAN TT 075/064 074/067 076 17589
TEBBE 062/076 059/079 057/076 052/075 7532110114
MEI CT 077/063 074/065 077 17279
TEBBE 061/076 057/080 055/078 051/075 8553110114Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 8, 5:08 AM CDT, 9 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 508 AM CDT FRI OCT 08 2004 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 091008- ADAMS-ASHLEY-ATTALA-BOLIVAR-CARROLL-CATAHOULA-CHICOT-CHOCTAW- CLAIBORNE-CLARKE-CLAY-CONCORDIA-COPIAH-COVINGTON-EAST CARROLL- FORREST-FRANKLIN LA-FRANKLIN MS-GRENADA-HINDS-HOLMES-HUMPHREYS- ISSAQUENA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-JONES-KEMPER-LAMAR- LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEAKE-LEFLORE-LINCOLN-LOWNDES-MADISON LA- MADISON MS-MARION-MONTGOMERY-MOREHOUSE-NESHOBA-NEWTON-NOXUBEE- OKTIBBEHA-RANKIN-RICHLAND-SCOTT-SHARKEY-SIMPSON-SMITH-SUNFLOWER- TENSAS-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WEST CARROLL-WINSTON-YAZOO- 508 AM CDT FRI OCT 08 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...FLOODING... PERSISTENT MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL IMPACT THE WESTERN HALF OF MISSISSIPPI...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS LATER TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. THE RAINS COULD TOTAL ONE TO TWO INCHES BY DAYBREAK SATURDAY MAINLY WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR. SOME OF THESE LOCATIONS HAVE NOT SEEN SUBSTANTIAL RAINFALL IN THE PAST SIX WEEKS AND A GOOD SOAKING WILL BE WELCOME AS THE RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. THE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...ESPECIALLY TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... ...DAYS TWO AND THREE...SATURDAY AND SUNDAY... A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT PORTIONS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI LATER ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BRING UNSTABLE GULF AIR INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND HELP FUEL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE STRONGER STORMS SHOULD STAY GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY 84 CORRIDOR WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH. ...DAYS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS... AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...OCTOBER 14TH. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
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.