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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 2016, 9:21 AM CST for Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas. 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
- Mar 10, 2016, 9:21 AM CST (15:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2016, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Emergency
- Flash flood emergency
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 585 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
198
WGUS54 KJAN 101521
FFWJAN
ARC003-017-101815-
/O.NEW.KJAN.FF.W.0031.160310T1521Z-160310T1815Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
921 AM CST THU MAR 10 2016
...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS...
EASTERN ASHLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS...
* UNTIL 1215 PM CST
* AT 917 AM CST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
ALONG WITH WATER RESCUES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. STORM TOTAL
RAINFALL SO FAR RANGES FROM 10 TO 13 INCHES. SIGNIFICANT FLASH
FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING.
THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LAKE VILLAGE...DERMOTT...EUDORA...WILMOT...PORTLAND...MONTROSE...
PARKDALE...BERLIN...SNYDER...MCMILLAN CORNER AND CHICOT JUNCTION.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA THROUGH NOON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE
THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE
FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3339 9163 3339 9146 3356 9145 3356 9135
3352 9135 3353 9134 3352 9132 3353 9123
3350 9118 3345 9123 3344 9123 3344 9118
3350 9117 3346 9112 3342 9116 3341 9121
3335 9114 3328 9115 3302 9127 3301 9181
$$
CMEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Ashley | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 6:37 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Chicot | 23 min |
| Mar 9, 7:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Chicot | 46 min |
| Mar 10, 1:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Chicot | 11 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Ashley | 12 hr |
| Mar 10, 12:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Chicot | 24 hr |
| Mar 10, 12:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Ashley | 24 hr |
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.