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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Jackson, MS

March 8, 2024Clarke County, Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 2024, 12:42 PM CST for Clarke County, Lauderdale County, Mississippi. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 2024, 12:42 PM CST (18:42 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2024, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Clarke County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -390 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 430 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 607 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Mar 8, 10:12 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 10:12 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 11:45 AM CST, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:08 PM CST, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:23 PM CST, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:25 PM CST, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:28 PM CST, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:38 PM CST, 4 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 8, 4:33 AM CST	Flood Watch	JAN	Adams, Attala, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 29 more	15 hr
Mar 8, 5:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena	60 min
Mar 8, 5:46 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Sharkey, Yazoo	59 min
Mar 8, 6:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds, Madison	58 min
Mar 8, 7:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	50 min
Mar 8, 7:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	52 min
Mar 8, 7:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	34 min
Mar 8, 8:24 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Noxubee	43 hr
Mar 8, 9:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Jones	5 days
Mar 8, 9:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	42 min
Mar 8, 9:34 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	14 days
Mar 8, 9:34 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	5 days
Mar 8, 9:34 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Warren	11 days
Mar 8, 9:39 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Leake	6 days
Mar 8, 9:39 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Leake	4 days
Mar 8, 9:39 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Neshoba	5 days
Mar 8, 9:47 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	6 hr
Mar 8, 11:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Jefferson, Rankin, Simpson	5 hr
Mar 8, 11:36 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Scott, Simpson, Smith	5 hr
Mar 8, 11:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale, Newton	60 min
Mar 8, 11:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton	55 min
Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Simpson	3 days
Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	11 days
Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Lawrence	12 days
Mar 8, 3:21 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln	3 hr
Mar 8, 4:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	45 min
Mar 8, 4:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jones	42 min
Mar 8, 4:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	35 min
Mar 8, 4:25 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Marion	3 hr
Mar 8, 4:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	26 min
Mar 8, 4:39 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	3 hr
Mar 8, 4:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Morehouse	63 min
Mar 8, 4:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Richland, West Carroll	52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.