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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 11, 2016, 2:19 PM CST for Morehouse Parish, Richland Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. 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 11, 2016, 2:19 PM CST (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2016, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Morehouse Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
002
WGUS54 KJAN 112019
FFWJAN
LAC067-083-123-112315-
/O.NEW.KJAN.FF.W.0073.160311T2019Z-160311T2315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
219 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CARROLL PARISH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...
RICHLAND PARISH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...
MOREHOUSE PARISH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 515 PM CST
* AT 216 PM CST...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED EXPANSIVE FLASH
FLOODING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF
10 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
BASTROP...RAYVILLE...MANGHAM...START...DELHI...OAK GROVE...JONES...
ARCHIBALD...GALION...ALTO...DARNELL...WARDEN...BUCKNER...BEEKMAN...
HOLLY RIDGE...GOODWILL...EPPS...MER ROUGE...KILBOURNE AND FOREST.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3301 9127 3284 9135 3275 9134 3269 9140
3261 9139 3258 9145 3250 9148 3241 9148
3240 9164 3233 9176 3225 9177 3218 9184
3217 9198 3227 9199 3228 9203 3252 9190
3266 9191 3271 9197 3271 9206 3301 9207
$$
17The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:33 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:28 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | Catahoula, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison | 9 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 6:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 7:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Tensas | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 8:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:18 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Franklin | 12 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:16 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison, Tensas | 21 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:24 AM CST | River Flood Advisory | JAN | East Carroll | 36 hr |
| Mar 11, 5:55 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia, Franklin, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll | 24 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.