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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Jackson, MS

January 21, 2016Holmes County, Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jan 21, 2016, 3:11 PM CST for Holmes County, Yazoo 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: Jan 21, 2016, 3:11 PM CST (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jan 21, 2016, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Holmes County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

662 
WGUS54 KJAN 212111
FFWJAN
MSC051-163-220015-
/O.NEW.KJAN.FF.W.0001.160121T2111Z-160122T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
311 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
  SOUTHERN HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 615 PM CST
    
* AT 311 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  YAZOO CITY...DURANT...BENTON...FRANKLIN...LEXINGTON...GOODMAN...
  PICKENS...VAUGHAN...MYRLEVILLE...LITTLE YAZOO...PHOENIX...
  TINSLEY...EBENEZER...BROZVILLE...TOLARVILLE...COXBURG...BENTONIA...
  EDEN AND SATARTIA.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS NEAR 2 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 3311 8982 3307 8982 3300 8988 3291 8992
      3289 8996 3282 9002 3261 9034 3260 9035
      3258 9040 3258 9045 3256 9045 3252 9050
      3254 9059 3285 9055 3312 9012

$$

CME

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 20, 7:52 PM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Clay	4 days
Jan 21, 8:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	24 min
Jan 21, 8:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	32 min
Jan 21, 9:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	12 min
Jan 21, 9:54 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	36 min
Jan 21, 10:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	55 min
Jan 21, 10:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Yazoo	56 min
Jan 21, 11:08 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes	37 min
Jan 21, 12:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	25 min
Jan 21, 1:19 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	12 hr
Jan 21, 1:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes	26 min
Jan 21, 1:51 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes	24 min
Jan 21, 1:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	36 min
Jan 21, 2:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	26 min
Jan 21, 2:10 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	35 min
Jan 21, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	75 min
Jan 21, 2:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	26 min
Jan 21, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams	64 min
Jan 21, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	47 min
Jan 21, 2:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	31 min
Jan 21, 2:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	34 min
Jan 21, 2:43 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena and 5 more	19 hr
Jan 21, 2:43 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	JAN	Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada and 15 more	23 hr
Jan 21, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds, Warren	52 min
Jan 21, 3:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	54 min
Jan 21, 3:25 PM CST	Wind Advisory	JAN	Bolivar, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Warren and 1 more	23 hr
Jan 21, 3:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	33 min
Jan 21, 3:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	41 min
Jan 21, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	55 min
Jan 21, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	45 min
Jan 21, 3:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	61 min
Jan 21, 4:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	27 min
Jan 21, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds	43 min
Jan 21, 4:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Simpson	62 min
Jan 21, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	45 min
Jan 21, 4:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	42 min
Jan 21, 4:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	66 min
Jan 21, 5:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	2 hr
Jan 21, 5:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	47 min
Jan 21, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	65 min
Jan 21, 5:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	48 min
Jan 21, 5:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	35 min
Jan 21, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.