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Flash Flood Watch 8, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood watch at May 28, 2014, 4:24 AM CDT for 47 counties in Mississippi; 9 parishes in Louisiana; Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2014, 4:24 AM CDT (09:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Flood severity
- None
All 58 counties
Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar 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, Issaquena 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, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:26 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 1204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 May 27, 9:38 PM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:38 PM CDT, 6 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 3:07 PM CDT, 13 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 307 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2014 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ034-035-040>043-047>050- 053>056-059>066-072>074-282015- ASHLEY-CHICOT-MOREHOUSE-WEST CARROLL-EAST CARROLL-RICHLAND- MADISON LA-FRANKLIN LA-CATAHOULA-TENSAS-CONCORDIA-WASHINGTON- HUMPHREYS-ISSAQUENA-SHARKEY-YAZOO-MADISON MS-WARREN-HINDS-RANKIN- SCOTT-CLAIBORNE-COPIAH-SIMPSON-SMITH-JEFFERSON-ADAMS-FRANKLIN MS- LINCOLN-LAWRENCE-JEFFERSON DAVIS-COVINGTON-JONES-MARION-LAMAR- FORREST- 307 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY FLOODING RISK...LIMITED TIMING...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON FOR LOCATIONS MAINLY WEST OF I-55. IN ADDITION...SEVERAL ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 49 CORRIDOR OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY FLOODING IS POSSIBLE FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH NEXT MONDAY. MSZ018-019-025>033-036>039-044>046-051-052-057-058-282015- BOLIVAR-SUNFLOWER-LEFLORE-GRENADA-CARROLL-MONTGOMERY-WEBSTER-CLAY- LOWNDES-CHOCTAW-OKTIBBEHA-HOLMES-ATTALA-WINSTON-NOXUBEE-LEAKE- NESHOBA-KEMPER-NEWTON-LAUDERDALE-JASPER-CLARKE- 307 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...AND NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH NEXT MONDAY. CME && ...HAZARD LEGEND... *FLOODING* EXTREME...CONFIDENT IN SIGNIFICANT FLOODING. HIGH...SIGNIFICANT FLOODING POSSIBLE. ELEVATED...CONFIDENT IN FLOODING. LIMITED...FLOODING POSSIBLE. ...USEFUL WEATHER WEB PAGES (URLS)... NWS JAN HOME PAGE... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/JAN STAY AWARE, STAY SAFE NWS JAN BRIEFING PAGE... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN/?N=SAFE FIND NWS JAN ON FACEBOOK... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.JACKSONMS.GOV FOLLOW NWS JAN ON TWITTER... @NWSJACKSONMS ...ADDITIONAL URLS FOR FLOODING ISSUES... LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER RFC HOME PAGE... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LMRFC/ NWS SIGNIFICANT RIVER FLOOD OUTLOOK... WWW.HPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/NATIONALFLOODOUTLOOK/INDEX.HTML WPC DAY 1 THROUGH 3 EXCESSIVE RAINFALL... WWW.HPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/QPF/EXCESS_RAIN.SHTML WPC EXCESSIVE RAINFALL DISCUSSION... WWW.HPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/DISCUSSIONS/QPFERD.HTML WPC DAY 1 THROUGH 7 QPF... WWW.HPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/QPF/QPF2.SHTML WPC QPF DISCUSSION... WWW.HPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/DISCUSSIONS/QPFHSD.HTML NWS JAN OBSERVED PRECIPITATION IMAGES... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN/?N=PRECIPMAPS PLEASE CONVERT ALL WEB ADDRESSES TO LOWER CASE BEFORE ENTERING!
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 12:12 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
MSZ043-048-049-280555-
RANKIN MS-MADISON MS-HINDS MS-
1212 AM CDT WED MAY 28 2014
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1212 AM CDT WED MAY 28 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER METRO JACKSON AREA...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL AND 45 MPH
WIND GUSTS WAS LOCATED OVER JACKSON AT 1212 AM CDT...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
STRIKES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
HIGH WINDS CAN BRING DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS RESULTING IN SERIOUS
INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN OUTDOORS
DURING SUCH STRONG WINDS...AND BE ESPECIALLY AWARE OF OLDER TREES.
PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN HINDS...SOUTHERN MADISON AND WESTERN RANKIN
COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
LAT...LON 3233 9033 3270 9013 3270 9010 3273 9007
3274 9004 3265 8984 3225 9014 3223 9027
TIME...MOT...LOC 0512Z 208DEG 21KT 3237 9018
BYBSpecial weather statement, May 28, 12:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
MSZ061-280650-
FRANKLIN MS-
1252 AM CDT WED MAY 28 2014
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1252 AM CDT WED MAY 28 2014
...STRONG STORMS TO AFFECT FRANKLIN COUNTY...
A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL
AND 40 TO 50 MPH WIND GUSTS WAS LOCATED FROM 4 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN
CITY TO 31 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY AT 1252 AM CDT...MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
STRIKES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
HIGH WINDS CAN BRING DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS RESULTING IN SERIOUS
INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN OUTDOORS
DURING SUCH STRONG WINDS...AND BE ESPECIALLY AWARE OF OLDER TREES.
PEOPLE IN FRANKLIN COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THESE STORMS CLOSELY.
LAT...LON 3135 9117 3136 9115 3151 9115 3160 9063
3134 9063 3134 9098 3133 9100 3134 9102
3133 9103 3132 9112
TIME...MOT...LOC 0552Z 258DEG 27KT 3143 9111 3093 9110
BYBLocal storm report, May 28, 3:48 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Neshoba | 49 min |
| May 27, 7:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 59 min |
| May 27, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 2 hr |
| May 27, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Oktibbeha, Webster | 59 min |
| May 28, 12:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Madison | 43 min |
| May 28, 12:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 3 hr |
| May 28, 12:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Franklin | 58 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Mississippi, 2014Flash Flood Watches in Louisiana, 2014Flash Flood Watches in Arkansas, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.