Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2004, 5:32 PM CDT for Sharkey County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2004, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sharkey County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 5:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Anguilla, MS | TREE DOWN, POLE UPROOTED, AND PART OF A CHURCH BLOWN DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 61. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KJAN 292232
TORJAN
MSC125-292315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
532 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SHARKEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 528 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A TORNADO NEAR ROLLING FORK...OR OVER ROLLING FORK...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL SHARKEY COUNTY AT 550 PM CDT
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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND NORTHWESTERN
MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3290 9093 3298 9091 3302 9084 3304 9076
3309 9065 3293 9065 3284 9076 3282 9088
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 58 min |
| Apr 29, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 78 min |
| Apr 29, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 61 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.