Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Watches in 2009
Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood watch at Feb 27, 2009, 3:37 AM CST for 25 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Feb 27, 2009, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2009, 3:37 AM CST (09:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2009, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2009, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Flood severity
- None
All 25 counties
Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:40 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Feb 26, 10:25 PM CST, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 10:25 PM CST, 5 hours 12 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 27, 3:16 AM CST, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 316 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2009 MSZ018-270945- BOLIVAR MS- 316 AM CST FRI FEB 27 2009 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF ROSEDALE AT 316 AM CST...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL BOLIVAR COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. CAW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 5:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 6:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 30 min |
| Feb 27, 7:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Grenada | 2 hr |
| Feb 27, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 44 min |
| Feb 27, 7:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 7:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 8:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 22 min |
| Feb 27, 8:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 20 min |
| Feb 27, 8:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 61 min |
| Feb 27, 9:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 29 min |
| Feb 27, 9:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Washington | 43 min |
| Feb 27, 9:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 10:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Webster | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 11:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 11:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 28 min |
| Feb 27, 12:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 38 min |
| Feb 27, 12:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 25 min |
| Feb 27, 12:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 52 min |
| Feb 27, 12:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Grenada | 14 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Webster | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 22 min |
| Feb 27, 1:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 31 min |
| Feb 27, 2:07 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Leflore, Sunflower | 113 min |
| Feb 27, 2:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Webster | 32 min |
| Feb 27, 2:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 2:15 PM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 8 days |
| Feb 27, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Oktibbeha | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 2:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 22 min |
| Feb 27, 3:42 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Leflore, Sunflower | 111 min |
| Feb 27, 4:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Webster | 12 hr |
| Feb 27, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee, Winston | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Oktibbeha | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 4:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 25 min |
| Feb 27, 5:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 28 min |
| Feb 27, 7:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 52 min |
| Feb 27, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 67 min |
| Feb 27, 8:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 65 min |
| Feb 27, 11:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 11:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 40 min |
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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.