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Flood Watch 2, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this flood watch at May 26, 2026, 9:42 AM CDT for 6 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at May 26, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2026, 9:42 AM CDT (14:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 26, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 26, 2026, 8:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:43 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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 955 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at May 26, 6:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke | 37 hr |
| May 26, 11:12 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 10 hr |
| May 26, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jones | 26 min |
| May 26, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 36 min |
| May 26, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jasper | 25 min |
| May 26, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lauderdale | 35 min |
| May 26, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Franklin | 34 min |
Nearby
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.