Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2007, 4:03 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 117 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
- Aug 30, 2007, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
County Lauderdale County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 302105 FFWJAN MSC075-302300- /X.NEW.KJAN.FF.W.0013.070830T2103Z-070830T2300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 403 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LAUDERDALE...MERIDIAN STATION... MERIDIAN... * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 403 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREETS WERE FLOODED IN THE MERIDIAN AREA. RAINFALL RATES WERE NEAR 2 INCHES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MARTIN... SUQUALENA...MEEHAN...KEWANEE...TOOMSUBA...ALAMUCHA...NELLIEBURG... MARION AND COLLINSVILLE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3255 8888 3255 8843 3223 8845 3224 8888 TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 180DEG 0KT 3232 8870 $$ 7
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KJAN 302300 FFSJAN FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 555 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2007 MSC075-302315- /X.EXP.KJAN.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070830T2300Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LAUDERDALE MS- 555 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM CDT FOR LAUDERDALE COUNTY... AT 550 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY TAPERING OFF TO SPRINKLES IN THE WEST. THE RAINS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND SHOULD END BEFORE 630 PM. ANY ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS SHOULD BE LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH AND STREET FLOODING SHOULD SUBSIDE. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES LIKELY OCCURRED OVER THE CITY OF MERIDIAN AND POINTS TO THE SOUTHEAST SINCE 3 PM. THE MERIDIAN AIRPORT HAS REPORTED JUST UNDER 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL. LAT...LON 3255 8888 3255 8843 3223 8845 3224 8888 TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 180DEG 0KT 3232 8870 $$ 40
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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.