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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Jackson, MS

April 29, 2004Franklin Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2004, 4:56 PM CDT for Franklin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 29, 2004, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2004, 5:35 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Franklin Parish, LA

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 29, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 1051 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 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.

174 
WFUS54 KJAN 292156
TORJAN
LAC041-292235-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
456 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 535 PM CDT

* AT 454 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF CROWVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  WINNSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL FRANKLIN PARISH AT 510 PM CDT

LARGE HAIL AND STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND NORTHWESTERN
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3231 9174 3213 9171 3221 9152 3240 9152

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	45 min
Apr 29, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse	47 min
Apr 29, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	West Carroll	46 min
Apr 29, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	West Carroll	43 min
Apr 29, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	47 min
Apr 29, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Richland	61 min
Apr 29, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	75 min
Apr 29, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	78 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.