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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Jackson, MS

April 29, 2004Hinds County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2004, 8:11 PM CDT for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 59 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, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2004, 9:10 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hinds County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.

431 
WFUS54 KJAN 300111
TORJAN
MSC049-300210-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 910 PM CDT

* AT 808 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAYMOND...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF CLINTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RAYMOND BY 835 PM CDT
  BYRAM...TERRY AND SOUTH JACKSON BY 910 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

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.


LAT...LON 3229 9067 3211 9070 3207 9024 3231 9022

$$

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, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	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, 8:27 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

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.