Flash Flood — Simpson, Mississippi

2024-01-24 · near Harrisville, Simpson, Mississippi

Event narrative

MS Highway 540 was flooded with water across the roadway, and MS Highway 43 was flooded over in three locations.

Wider weather episode

With an upper-level trough of low pressure situated over Central Plains and a very moist air mass extending north through the Mississippi River Valley, training showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flooding over parts of Mississippi.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1160407. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.