Alert archive / Mississippi / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood watch at Jul 5, 2013, 9:39 AM CDT for 43 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Jul 5, 2013, 1:48 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2013, 9:39 AM CDT (14:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 5, 2013, 1:48 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2013, 9:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Flood severity
- None
All 43 counties
Adams County, MS, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:39 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 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 2139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 12:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Smith | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 1:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 114 min |
| Jul 5, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Claiborne | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 2:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Sharkey | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 2:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Washington | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 4:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 113 min |
| Jul 5, 5:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.