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Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2016, 1:28 PM CDT for Morehouse Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 92 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2016, 1:28 PM CDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Morehouse Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
908
WGUS54 KJAN 281828
FFWJAN
LAC067-123-282000-
/O.NEW.KJAN.FF.W.0129.160728T1828Z-160728T2000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
128 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN WEST CARROLL PARISH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...
SOUTHWESTERN MOREHOUSE PARISH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 127 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO
MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA AND FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE. UP
TO SIX INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNING AREA AND AN
ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BASTROP...DARNELL...EPPS...MER ROUGE...COLLINSTON AND OAK RIDGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3271 9137 3268 9140 3261 9139 3258 9145
3258 9159 3267 9160 3267 9164 3261 9167
3261 9172 3256 9174 3257 9181 3252 9184
3254 9188 3252 9190 3258 9193 3266 9191
3266 9194 3271 9197 3270 9205 3282 9207
$$
EECThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 10:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison, Richland | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 10:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison, Richland | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | Franklin | 6 hr |
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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.