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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Jackson, MS

December 9, 20044 counties in Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Dec 9, 2004, 2:44 AM CST for 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 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: Dec 9, 2004, 2:44 AM CST (08:44 UTC)
Expired: Dec 9, 2004, 6:45 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lowndes County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Winston County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KJAN 090846
FFWJAN
MSC087-103-105-159-091245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
244 AM CST THU DEC 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NOXUBEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE
  LOWNDES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...GOLDEN TRIANGLE AIRPORT...COLUMBUS
  AFB...COLUMBUS
  OKTIBBEHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF STARKVILLE

* UNTIL 645 AM CST

* AT 244 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN APPROACHING THE AREA FROM 
THE SOUTHWEST.  HOURLY RAINFALL RATES AROUND 1.5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED 
FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.  

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO NEW HOPE...
  CRAWFORD...CALEDONIA AND BROOKSVILLE.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED 
AREA.  THIS REGION HAS ALREADY RECEIVED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN 
OVERNIGHT. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

LAT...LON 3297 8930 3298 8885 3332 8833 3376 8828
      3367 8849 3355 8847 3350 8867 3346 8906
      3322 8910

$$

CRAVEN

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KJAN 091153
FFSJAN

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
550 AM CST THU DEC 9 2004

MSC087-103-105-159-091245-
LOWNDES MS-OKTIBBEHA MS-NOXUBEE MS-WINSTON MS-
550 AM CST THU DEC 9 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 AM CST FOR WINSTON...
NOXUBEE...OKTIBBEHA AND LOWNDES COUNTIES...

AT 548 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER LOWNDES AND NOXUBEE COUNTIES.  
THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS SHIFTED EAST OF WINSTON AND OKTIBBEHA 
COUNTIES. 

THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AIRPORT IN LOWNDES COUNTY HAS RECEIVED 2.62 
INCHES OVERNIGHT.  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT STORM TOTALS OF 3 TO 
5 INCHES LIKELY FELL FROM SOUTHERN WINSTON COUNTY INTO SOUTHEAST 
LOWNDES COUNTY.  

RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND 
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND 
FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING 
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

LAT...LON 3297 8930 3298 8885 3332 8833 3376 8828
      3367 8849 3355 8847 3350 8867 3346 8906
      3322 8910

$$

CRAVEN

000 
WGUS74 KJAN 091246
FFSJAN

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
642 AM CST THU DEC 9 2004

MSC087-103-105-159-091255-
LOWNDES MS-OKTIBBEHA MS-NOXUBEE MS-WINSTON MS-
642 AM CST THU DEC 9 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WINSTON...NOXUBEE...OKTIBBEHA AND 
LOWNDES COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 645 AM CST...

AT 640 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE RAIN HAS ENDED IN MOST AREAS THROUGH SHOWERS WILL LINGER IN 
NOXUBEE COUNTY FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO. 

NOXUBEE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THAT NUMEROUS ROADS 
WERE FLOODED IN THE MACON AREA.

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT A LARGE AREA OF 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN 
LIKELY FELL FROM WINSTON COUNTY INTO NORTHWEST NOXUBEE AND SOUTHEAST 
LOWNDES COUNTY OVERNIGHT.  

RUNOFF FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING OF CREEKS...
STREAMS...AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY PERSIST FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS 
MORNING.

LAT...LON 3297 8930 3298 8885 3332 8833 3376 8828
      3367 8849 3355 8847 3350 8867 3346 8906
      3322 8910

$$

CRAVEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 8, 9:54 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Kemper	3 hr
Dec 8, 11:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	48 min
Dec 9, 12:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	40 min
Dec 9, 12:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	3 hr
Dec 9, 12:49 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Warren	3 hr
Dec 9, 2:06 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Franklin	3 hr
Dec 9, 2:22 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lincoln	4 hr
Dec 9, 2:27 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Rankin	4 hr
Dec 9, 3:28 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Simpson	3 hr
Dec 9, 3:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	46 min
Dec 9, 3:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Madison	80 min
Dec 9, 3:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	45 min
Dec 9, 3:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	33 min
Dec 9, 4:02 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	28 min
Dec 9, 4:10 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Newton	3 hr
Dec 9, 4:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	50 min
Dec 9, 4:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	28 min
Dec 9, 4:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	36 min
Dec 9, 4:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	47 min
Dec 9, 5:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	55 min
Dec 9, 5:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	36 min
Dec 9, 5:53 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	22 min
Dec 9, 6:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	40 min
Dec 9, 6:34 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	26 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.