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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 24, 2026Jackson County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2026, 3:41 AM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 2 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: May 24, 2026, 3:41 AM CDT (08:41 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2026, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Jackson County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 24, 1:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 1:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 11:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 12:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 12:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 1:41 AM CDT, 2 hours before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 1:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 1:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		45 min
May 23, 8:52 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		53 min
May 23, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		53 min
May 23, 9:52 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		83 min
May 23, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		90 min
May 23, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		56 min
May 23, 11:52 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		68 min
May 23, 11:58 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		24 min
May 24, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Lafourche	40 min
May 24, 12:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche	40 min
May 24, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		46 min
May 24, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		38 min
May 24, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	47 min
May 24, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LIX	Jefferson, Plaquemines	44 min
May 24, 1:09 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		96 min
May 24, 1:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		52 min
May 24, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	47 min
May 24, 1:45 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		60 min
May 24, 1:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	52 min
May 24, 2:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	32 min
May 24, 2:36 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		54 min
May 24, 2:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	105 min
May 24, 3:18 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		57 min
May 24, 3:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		64 min
May 24, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		30 min
May 24, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Plaquemines	25 min
May 24, 2:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Jackson	45 min
May 24, 4:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Jackson	43 min
May 24, 4:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	20 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.