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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Apr 15, 2015, 2:06 PM CDT for Harrison County, Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2015, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2015, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
493
WGUS54 KLIX 151906
FFWLIX
MSC047-059-152200-
/O.NEW.KLIX.FF.W.0013.150415T1906Z-150415T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
206 PM CDT WED APR 15 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT
* AT 204 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF
BILOXI PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE
INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HAS
RECEIVED SEVERAL REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BILOXI...OCEAN SPRINGS...MOSS POINT...ST. MARTIN...ESCATAWPA...
GAUTIER...D'IBERVILLE...VANCLEAVE...HURLEY...HELENA...GULF PARK
ESTATES...LATIMER...BIG POINT...WADE...GULF HILLS AND HICKORY
HILLS.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3032 8850 3034 8851 3034 8857 3037 8859
3035 8874 3043 8885 3042 8889 3039 8886
3041 8893 3041 8889 3043 8891 3043 8897
3068 8910 3069 8841 3041 8840
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:18 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LIX | Amite, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson | 102 min |
| Apr 15, 12:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Hancock | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 17 min |
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.