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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2004Clay County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 2004, 8:28 PM CST for Clay County, Mississippi. It was in force for 17 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: Mar 5, 2004, 8:28 PM CST (02:28 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clay County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 5, 5:40 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

110 
WUUS54 KJAN 060228
SVRJAN
MSC025-060245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
826 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 826 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTH OF
  MONTPELIER. MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  BE NEAR THE TOWN OF ABBOTT AT 835 PM.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES.

WINDS FROM 60 TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3372 8902 3357 8893 3372 8836 3393 8846

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 6:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	46 min
Mar 5, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	27 min
Mar 5, 6:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	41 min
Mar 5, 6:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	26 min
Mar 5, 7:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	44 min
Mar 5, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	16 min
Mar 5, 7:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw	47 min
Mar 5, 8:17 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Montgomery	3 hr
Mar 5, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	28 min
Mar 5, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	26 min
Mar 5, 11:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	2 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.