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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Jackson, MS

February 5, 2004Marion County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 8:40 PM CST for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 60 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: Feb 5, 2004, 8:40 PM CST (02:40 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2004, 9:40 PM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marion 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
Feb 5, 4:55 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 1068 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.4

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The text

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

627 
WFUS54 KJAN 060240
TORJAN
MSC091-060340-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
839 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 940 PM CST

* AT 839 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KOKOMO...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF
  FRANKLINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR FOXWORTH AND MORGANTOWN AT 915 PM
  BE NEAR GOSS...COLUMBIA AT 925 PM CST

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.

LAT...LON 3119 9002 3138 9002 3138 8984 3132 8972
          3118 8990 3116 8999

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 8:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee	6 hr
Feb 5, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	57 min
Feb 5, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	47 min
Feb 5, 9:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	41 min
Feb 5, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	57 min
Feb 5, 11:50 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln, Rankin	3 hr
Feb 6, 12:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith	6 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.