Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2012, 5:04 AM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 80 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 15, 2012, 5:04 AM CDT (10:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2012, 6:24 AM CDT
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Jackson County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:03 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 3129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
541
WGUS54 KLIX 151004
FFWLIX
MSC059-151300-
/O.NEW.KLIX.FF.W.0048.120815T1004Z-120815T1300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
504 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PASCAGOULA...OCEAN SPRINGS...MOSS
POINT...ESCATAWPA...
* UNTIL 800 AM CDT
* AT 456 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A NEARLY STATIONARY LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUING OVER SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY BETWEEN INTERSTATE 10 AND
THE COAST...MAINLY FROM OCEAN SPRINGS EASTWARD. UP TO 2 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN THIS AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GULF PARK
ESTATES
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES OR MORE IS POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
&&
LAT...LON 3034 8840 3035 8843 3031 8847 3031 8850
3033 8852 3033 8857 3036 8862 3034 8874
3037 8881 3042 8887 3042 8888 3054 8840
3035 8839
$$1 follow-up statement
613
WGUS74 KLIX 151124
FFSLIX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
624 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2012
MSC059-151132-
/O.CAN.KLIX.FF.W.0048.000000T0000Z-120815T1300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
JACKSON MS-
624 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2012
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHERN JACKSON
COUNTY...
RAINFALL HAS DIMINISHED CONSIDERABLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 SINCE 6
AM. NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY AND
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
LAT...LON 3034 8840 3035 8843 3031 8847 3031 8850
3033 8852 3033 8857 3036 8862 3034 8874
3037 8881 3042 8887 3042 8888 3054 8840
3035 8839
$$Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2012Every flash flood warning in 2012
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.