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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 369, NWS Jackson, MS

November 3, 2004Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 3, 2004, 2:28 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 3, 2004, 2:28 PM CST (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Nov 3, 2004, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lauderdale County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KJAN 032028
SVRJAN
MSC075-032115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
228 PM CST WED NOV 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 228 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED 
TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE 
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHYNOT...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
MERIDIAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WHYNOT BY 240 PM CST
  6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF I-20 MS EXIT 169 BY 300 PM CST

LAT...LON 3229 8869 3233 8862 3233 8861 3237 8855
      3237 8854 3246 8842 3223 8844 3223 8866

$$

BYB

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 3, 1:55 PM CST, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 1:55 PM CST, 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
155 PM CST WED NOV 3 2004

.SHORT TERM...UPPER LOW STILL WELL OFF TO OUR WEST EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON BUT IS STILL THE MAJOR PLAYER IN OUR WEATHER.
AREA RADARS CONTINUE TO SHOW PATCHY LIGHT SHOWERS OVER THE REGION
WITH SOME ISOLATED STORMS IN THE SOUTHEAST. SURFACE LOW NOTED OVER
NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING SOUTH TO EAST
OF MCCOMB. SO HAVE LOWERED POPS AND KEPT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE EAST. RAISED TEMPS EAST AND SOUTHEAST. THE REST OF FORECAST
LOOKS GOOD. HAVE UPDATED GRIDS.
&&

.JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MS...NONE.
LA...NONE.
AR...NONE.

&&

17

Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 3, 7:25 AM CST, 7 hours 3 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
0725 AM CST WED NOV 03 2004

ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074-
041325-
ADAMS-ASHLEY-ATTALA-BOLIVAR-CARROLL-CATAHOULA-CHICOT-CHOCTAW-
CLAIBORNE-CLARKE-CLAY-CONCORDIA-COPIAH-COVINGTON-EAST CARROLL-
FORREST-FRANKLIN LA-FRANKLIN MS-GRENADA-HINDS-HOLMES-HUMPHREYS-
ISSAQUENA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-JONES-KEMPER-LAMAR-
LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEAKE-LEFLORE-LINCOLN-LOWNDES-MADISON LA-
MADISON MS-MARION-MONTGOMERY-MOREHOUSE-NESHOBA-NEWTON-NOXUBEE-
OKTIBBEHA-RANKIN-RICHLAND-SCOTT-SHARKEY-SIMPSON-SMITH-SUNFLOWER-
TENSAS-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WEST CARROLL-WINSTON-YAZOO-
0725 AM CST WED NOV 03 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

...FLOODING...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER PORTIONS OF
EAST MISSISSIPPI. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE AREA...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES
POSSIBLE. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...IN LOW LYING
AREAS...DITCHES AND CULVERTS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS
MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
THE ACTIVATION OF  STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS... AND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER
OPERATIONS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.