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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2004Attala County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 7:11 PM CST for Attala County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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, 7:11 PM CST (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 7:55 PM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Attala 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.

658 
WFUS54 KJAN 060111
TORJAN
MSC007-060155-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 755 PM CST

* AT 710 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF SALLIS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR SALLIS AT 725 PM CST
  BE NEAR KOSCIUSKO AT 740 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 3306 8982 3293 8987 3295 8942 3310 8935

$$

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, 6:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	26 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.