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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Jackson, MS

April 29, 2004Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2004, 7:47 PM CDT for Yazoo 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, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Yazoo City, MS	TREES DOWN. SOME ACROSS ROADWAYS. LIGHT PROPERTY DAMAGE.

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, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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

243 
WFUS54 KJAN 300047
TORJAN
MSC163-300130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 743 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF YAZOO CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  YAZOO CITY BY 800 PM CDT

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

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

LAT...LON 3279 9041 3280 9064 3292 9064 3292 9043
          3298 9043 3298 9022 3290 9004 3274 9005
          3276 9026

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones, Marion	45 min
Apr 29, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	42 min
Apr 29, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	57 min
Apr 29, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey	46 min
Apr 29, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	78 min
Apr 29, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne	44 min
Apr 29, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	43 min
Apr 29, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	46 min
Apr 29, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	43 min
Apr 29, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	59 min
Apr 29, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	28 min
Apr 29, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw	57 min
Apr 29, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	44 min
Apr 29, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	58 min
Apr 29, 8:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah	48 min
Apr 29, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	37 min
Apr 29, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	57 min
Apr 29, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	59 min
Apr 29, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	58 min
Apr 29, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	77 min
Apr 29, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Madison	44 min
Apr 29, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	62 min
Apr 29, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	27 min
Apr 29, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	39 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.