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River Flood Warning 106, NWS Jackson, MS

March 3, 2020Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this river flood warning at Mar 3, 2020, 10:07 AM CST for Jones County, Mississippi. It took effect at Mar 5, 2020, 6:40 AM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2020, 10:07 AM CST (16:07 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2020, 6:40 AM CST
Expired: Mar 8, 2020, 8:18 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Jones County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tallahala Creek at Laurel (LURM6).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 16.5 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02473500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 3, 7:09 AM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 7:09 AM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 6:42 AM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 3, 4:14 AM CST, 5 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 4:14 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	46 min
Mar 3, 9:43 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	8 days
Mar 3, 10:07 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Clarke	5 days
Mar 3, 11:14 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Neshoba	21 days
Mar 3, 11:14 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Leake	10 days
Mar 3, 11:14 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Leake	5 days
Mar 3, 11:44 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	13 days
Mar 3, 11:44 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Lawrence	15 days
Mar 3, 2:38 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 21 more	39 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.