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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2004Choctaw County, Webster County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 6:24 PM CST for Choctaw County, Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 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, 6:24 PM CST (00:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 7:10 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Choctaw County, MS, Webster 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

481 
WFUS54 KJAN 060024
TORJAN
MSC019-155-060110-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 710 PM CST

* AT 624 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOMNOLEN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF WINONA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR TOMNOLEN AT 635 PM CST
  BE NEAR EUPORA AT 640 PM CST
  BE NEAR WALTHALL AT 645 PM CST
  BE NEAR MATHISTON...MABEN AT 650 PM CST
  BE NEAR MANTEE AT 700 PM CST

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3361 8902 3350 8915 3343 8928 3338 8940
          3343 8945 3347 8937 3348 8950 3353 8950
          3362 8938 3368 8927 3373 8920 3373 8903

$$

CRAVEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 8:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	17 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.