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River Flood Warning 66, NWS Jackson, MS

May 12, 2025Copiah County, Simpson County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this river flood warning at May 12, 2025, 10:29 AM CDT for Copiah County, Simpson County, Mississippi. It took effect at May 12, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 2025, 10:29 AM CDT (15:29 UTC)
In effect from
May 12, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
May 16, 2025, 9:49 AM CDT
In force
4 days
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Copiah County, MS, Simpson County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 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 river

Written for the forecast point Pearl River at Rockport (ROCM6). The gauge peaked at 26.82 ft at May 14, 2025, 6:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
24 ft
Minor stage
25 ft
Moderate stage
35 ft
Major stage
39 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02488000, 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 May 11, 6:40 PM CDT, 15 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 6:40 PM CDT, 15 hours 49 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 7:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANSimpson25 min
May 11, 7:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANWashington50 min
May 11, 8:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANSimpson28 min
May 11, 8:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMadison34 min
May 11, 10:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANSmith31 min
May 11, 11:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANScott29 min
May 11, 11:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANLeake45 min
May 12, 10:25 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningJANNeshoba30 hr
May 12, 2:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANCarroll24 min
May 12, 2:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANYazoo25 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.