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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Jackson, MS

June 24, 2015Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2015, 4:28 PM CDT for Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2015, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2015, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Hinds County, MS, Rankin County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 5:00 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Jackson, MS	FLOODING ALONG LAWRENCE ROAD. REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 17 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1603 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

230 
WGUS54 KJAN 242128
FFWJAN
MSC049-121-242330-
/O.NEW.KJAN.FF.W.0039.150624T2128Z-150624T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
428 PM CDT WED JUN 24 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
  EAST CENTRAL HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
    
* AT 427 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO 
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  JACKSON...CLINTON...PEARL...FLOWOOD...RICHLAND AND RAYMOND. 

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3221 9046 3242 9039 3241 9024 3240 9024
      3240 8997 3222 9007

$$

EC

1 follow-up statement

284 
WGUS74 KJAN 242255
FFSJAN

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
555 PM CDT WED JUN 24 2015

MSC049-121-242305-
/O.CAN.KJAN.FF.W.0039.000000T0000Z-150624T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RANKIN MS-HINDS MS-
555 PM CDT WED JUN 24 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL RANKIN AND EAST CENTRAL
HINDS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...AND FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE
A THREAT.

LAT...LON 3221 9046 3242 9039 3241 9024 3240 9024
      3240 8997 3222 9007

$$

CME

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay	37 min
Jun 24, 1:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Webster	43 min
Jun 24, 4:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	37 min
Jun 24, 4:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	28 min
Jun 24, 11:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	31 min
Jun 24, 11:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	53 min
Jun 24, 12:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lamar	27 min
Jun 24, 12:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jones	39 min
Jun 24, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	15 min
Jun 24, 12:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	38 min
Jun 24, 1:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Covington	24 min
Jun 24, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	64 min
Jun 24, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Lamar	63 min
Jun 24, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	27 min
Jun 24, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith	66 min
Jun 24, 1:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	34 min
Jun 24, 1:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Lamar	119 min
Jun 24, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Montgomery	36 min
Jun 24, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	66 min
Jun 24, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	64 min
Jun 24, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery	47 min
Jun 24, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	59 min
Jun 24, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Leflore, Sunflower	57 min
Jun 24, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	38 min
Jun 24, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster	63 min
Jun 24, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	31 min
Jun 24, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	54 min
Jun 24, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	38 min
Jun 24, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sunflower	62 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	58 min
Jun 24, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo	50 min
Jun 24, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	37 min
Jun 24, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Oktibbeha	26 min
Jun 24, 5:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Yazoo	94 min
Jun 24, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	41 min
Jun 24, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	50 min
Jun 24, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.