Flash Flood in Warren County, Mississippi

Early Sunday morning several bands of thunderstorms developed across Southwest, West-central and Central Mississippi. These bands repeatedly moved over the same locations for a few hours and produced locally heavy rainfall. Most locations received 3 to 5 inches of rain in a few hour period. The heaviest rains fell within a corridor that was generally aligned along the Big Black River. This corridor received nearly 7 to 10 inches of rain over a few hour period. The worst flooding occurred in Warren and Yazoo counties. Here, many roads were washed out or flooded by several feet of water. Many homes in these areas had some amount of water inside them. The rest of the affected areas had flooded roads, creeks out of their banks and standing water in areas that normally do not flood.