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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2004Choctaw County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 7:38 PM CST for Choctaw County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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, 7:38 PM CST (01:38 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 8:25 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Choctaw 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.

515 
WFUS54 KJAN 060138
TORJAN
MSC019-060225-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 825 PM CST

* AT 738 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 26 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ACKERMAN...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF
  KOSCIUSKO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR ACKERMAN AT 800 PM CST
  BE NEAR REFORM AT 805 PM CST

THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

LAT...LON 3330 8930 3318 8930 3331 8909 3350 8909
          3329 8943

$$

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, 7:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	44 min
Mar 5, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	16 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.