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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Jackson, MS

February 5, 2004Madison County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 8:31 AM CST for Madison County, Mississippi. 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: Feb 5, 2004, 8:31 AM CST (14:31 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2004, 9:10 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 547 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 845 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

860 
WFUS54 KJAN 051431
TORJAN
MSC089-051510-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
830 AM CST THU FEB 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 910 AM CST

* AT 830 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER FLORA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF GLUCKSTADT...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 55 JUST SOUTH OF VAUGHN AROUND 
850 AM.

THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. TAKE COVER NOW

LAT...LON 3251 9029 3257 9036 3264 9028 3270 9008
          3287 8997 3287 8974 3258 9010 3249 9022

$$

CRAVEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 2:08 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Issaquena	3 hr
Feb 5, 2:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes, Madison, Yazoo	42 min
Feb 5, 6:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	60 min
Feb 5, 7:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Jefferson	59 min
Feb 5, 7:51 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	6 hr
Feb 5, 8:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	60 min
Feb 5, 8:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	57 min
Feb 5, 8:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	57 min
Feb 5, 8:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	6 hr
Feb 5, 8:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	59 min
Feb 5, 9:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin	29 min
Feb 5, 9:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	28 min
Feb 5, 9:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	6 hr
Feb 5, 9:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	59 min
Feb 5, 9:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	45 min
Feb 5, 9:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	19 min
Feb 5, 10:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Simpson	6 hr
Feb 5, 10:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	39 min
Feb 5, 10:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	50 min
Feb 5, 10:26 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	6 hr
Feb 5, 10:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	44 min
Feb 5, 11:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	45 min
Feb 5, 11:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	45 min
Feb 5, 11:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	44 min
Feb 5, 11:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Smith	44 min
Feb 5, 12:01 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Neshoba	3 hr
Feb 5, 12:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	32 min
Feb 5, 12:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	6 hr
Feb 5, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	39 min
Feb 5, 12:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Newton	4 hr
Feb 5, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	45 min
Feb 5, 1:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson	59 min
Feb 5, 1:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	55 min
Feb 5, 1:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	48 min
Feb 5, 1:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	66 min
Feb 5, 1:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	58 min
Feb 5, 2:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	39 min
Feb 5, 2:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	37 min
Feb 5, 2:14 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lawrence	3 hr
Feb 5, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	43 min
Feb 5, 2:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln, Rankin, Simpson	5 hr
Feb 5, 3:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Neshoba	5 hr
Feb 5, 3:26 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	6 hr
Feb 5, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	43 min
Feb 5, 3:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	59 min
Feb 5, 4:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	58 min
Feb 5, 4:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	44 min
Feb 5, 4:26 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Smith	4 hr
Feb 5, 4:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	4 hr
Feb 5, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	49 min
Feb 5, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	30 min
Feb 5, 5:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	4 hr
Feb 5, 5:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lawrence	4 hr
Feb 5, 5:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.