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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 2016, 3:31 PM CST for Rankin County, Scott County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 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
- Mar 10, 2016, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2016, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 5:00 PM CST | FLASH FLOOD | Morton, MS | SOME COUNTY ROADS FLOODED ACROSS THE COUNTY...ONLY MINOR FLOODING AT THIS TIME. |
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 34 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.
186
WGUS54 KJAN 102131 RRA
FFWJAN
MSC121-123-110130-
/O.NEW.KJAN.FF.W.0046.160310T2131Z-160311T0130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
331 PM CST THU MAR 10 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
SCOTT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 730 PM CST
* AT 329 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS 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...
FOREST...MORTON...HARPERVILLE...PELAHATCHIE...STEELE...HOMEWOOD...
BRANCH...FORKVILLE...GOSHEN SPRINGS...PULASKI...PISGAH...JOHNS...
LUDLOW...CATO...LEESBURG...HILLSBORO...LAKE...PUCKETT AND
SEBASTOPOL.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR 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 3222 8973 3205 8973 3205 8996 3250 8995
3256 8989 3257 8987 3258 8986 3259 8979
3258 8979 3263 8973 3258 8973 3257 8932
3222 8932
$$
17The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 9:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 11:16 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Bolivar | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 12:30 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Washington | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Issaquena, Sunflower, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:24 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Yazoo | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 7:28 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Issaquena, Sunflower, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 10, 9:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 9:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Issaquena, Warren | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 9:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 9:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 54 min |
| Mar 10, 10:16 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Warren | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 10:38 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Yazoo | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 10:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 10:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 11:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:17 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 15 days |
| Mar 10, 11:17 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 16 days |
| Mar 10, 11:17 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Marion | 17 days |
| Mar 10, 11:22 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 8 days |
| Mar 10, 11:22 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 13 days |
| Mar 10, 11:22 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 16 days |
| Mar 10, 11:28 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 39 days |
| Mar 10, 11:28 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 29 days |
| Mar 10, 11:32 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Leflore | 28 min |
| Mar 10, 11:38 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson, Warren | 4 days |
| Mar 10, 11:38 AM CST | River Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Wilkinson | 22 days |
| Mar 10, 11:45 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Attala | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 12:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Rankin | 25 min |
| Mar 10, 12:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 7 hr |
| Mar 10, 12:32 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Choctaw | 28 min |
| Mar 10, 12:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Choctaw, Oktibbeha | 52 min |
| Mar 10, 1:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:18 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Clay, Oktibbeha | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 1:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Issaquena, Warren | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lowndes | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 1:49 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 2:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lowndes | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 2:51 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Simpson | 24 min |
| Mar 10, 3:22 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Simpson | 23 min |
| Mar 10, 3:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson | 5 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:53 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Smith | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 4:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 25 min |
| Mar 10, 4:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Smith | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:27 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jasper | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 4:58 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 5:19 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:24 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 10 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 16 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jasper | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 5:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lauderdale | 26 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.