Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT for Clarke 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
- Aug 12, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2005, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clarke County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 908 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 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 130019 FFWJAN MSC023-130215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 715 PM CDT FRI AUG 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF QUITMAN * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 715 PM CDT...SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HOURLY RAINFALL RATES FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES OVER NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY. RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DESOTO AND CRANDALL. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3222 8844 3223 8889 3184 8885 3189 8849 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KJAN 130117 FFSJAN FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 813 PM CDT FRI AUG 12 2005 MSC023-130215- CLARKE MS- 815 PM CDT FRI AUG 12 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR CLARKE COUNTY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CLARKE COUNTY. RAINFALL ESTIMATES RANGED FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 4 INCHES OR GREATER. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3222 8844 3223 8889 3184 8885 3189 8849 $$
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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.