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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Jackson, MS

April 29, 2004Warren County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2004, 6:39 PM CDT for Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 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, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2004, 7:40 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Warren County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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, 7:10 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 E Redwood, MS	TREES DOWN AROUND THE OAK RIDGE COMMUNITY.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 292339
TORJAN
MSC149-300040-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 740 PM CDT

* AT 633 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REDWOOD...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF VICKSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  REDWOOD BY 650 PM CDT

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 3244 9095 3235 9094 3235 9071 3250 9066

$$

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, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey	43 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

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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.