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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS New Orleans, LA

May 28, 2026Hancock County, Pearl River County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2026, 10:59 AM CDT for Hancock County, Pearl River 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: May 28, 2026, 10:59 AM CDT (15:59 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2026, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Hancock County, MS, Pearl River County, MS

The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 2534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 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 28, 5:36 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 5:36 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 7:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 7:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 7:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 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 28, 6:39 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		66 min
May 28, 7:14 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		61 min
May 28, 7:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	64 min
May 28, 9:47 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		28 min
May 28, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		58 min
May 28, 11:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Bernard	3 hr
May 28, 11:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard	82 min
May 28, 9:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Pearl River	3 hr
May 28, 9:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	3 hr
May 28, 10:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pearl River	57 hr
May 28, 10:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Pearl River	4 hr
May 28, 10:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pearl River	47 hr
May 28, 11:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	5 hr
May 28, 11:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Harrison, Jackson	3 hr
May 28, 12:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Jackson	5 days
May 28, 12:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	56 hr
May 28, 3:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Jackson	3 hr
May 28, 3:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jackson	3 hr
May 28, 5:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	3 hr

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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.