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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2004, 8:31 PM CDT for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 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), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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, 1.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KJAN 300131
TORJAN
MSC163-300215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
831 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 828 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF BENTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF YAZOO
CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
I-55 EXIT 139 BY 900 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 3298 9036 3299 9026 3293 9014 3293 9010
3287 8997 3283 9002 3283 9016 3282 9017
3282 9034
$$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, 8:11 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, 8:37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.