Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2004

Tornado Warning 15, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2004Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 5:51 PM CST for Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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, 5:51 PM CST (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 2004, 6:20 PM CST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Holmes County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2004-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 75 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2004-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 283 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 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 
WFUS54 KJAN 052351
TORJAN
MSC051-060020-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
551 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 620 PM CST

* AT 551 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF
  DURANT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR I-55 EXIT 156 AT 555 PM CST
  BE NEAR I-55 EXIT 164...WEST AT 605 PM CST

LAT...LON 3322 8976 3315 8979 3308 8990 3301 9003
          3310 9012 3318 9010 3328 8990

$$

CRAVEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 4:16 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANCarroll, Grenada, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Sharkey4 hr
Mar 5, 5:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll, Grenada, Montgomery60 min
Mar 5, 5:57 PM CSTTornado WarningJANAttala, Carroll, Montgomery48 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes 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.