Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 110, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Dec 9, 2004, 5:53 AM CST for Noxubee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 22 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
- Dec 9, 2004, 5:53 AM CST (11:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2004, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Noxubee County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 091153 TORJAN MSC103-091215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 553 AM CST THU DEC 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NOXUBEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 615 AM CST * AT 553 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTH OF PRAIRIE POINT... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRAIRIE POINT BY 600 AM CST SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3295 8858 3293 8843 3296 8836 3323 8833 $$ CME
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 9:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Kemper | 3 hr |
| Dec 8, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 48 min |
| Dec 9, 12:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 40 min |
| Dec 9, 12:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams | 3 hr |
| Dec 9, 12:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Warren | 3 hr |
| Dec 9, 2:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Dec 9, 2:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Dec 9, 2:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin | 4 hr |
| Dec 9, 2:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 4 hr |
| Dec 9, 3:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Simpson | 3 hr |
| Dec 9, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 46 min |
| Dec 9, 3:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Madison | 80 min |
| Dec 9, 3:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 45 min |
| Dec 9, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 33 min |
| Dec 9, 4:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 28 min |
| Dec 9, 4:10 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba, Newton | 3 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton, Scott | 50 min |
| Dec 9, 4:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 28 min |
| Dec 9, 4:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 36 min |
| Dec 9, 4:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 47 min |
| Dec 9, 5:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 55 min |
| Dec 9, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Dec 9, 6:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 40 min |
| Dec 9, 6:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 26 min |
Nearby
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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.