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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2004Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 6:59 PM CST for Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 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, 6:59 PM CST (00:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 7:25 PM CST
In force: 26 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

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

122 
WFUS54 KJAN 060059
TORJAN
MSC051-060125-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 725 PM CST

* AT 657 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF EBENEZER...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 60 
MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR EBENEZER AT 705 PM CST
  BE NEAR I-55 EXIT 150 AT 715 PM CST

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER 
NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR 
HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3302 9021 3291 9003 3291 8995 3320 8982

$$

KRAMAR

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, 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.