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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2004, 4:47 PM CDT for Jasper County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 58 min. 7 reports 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
- May 1, 2004, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jasper County, MS, Smith County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 5:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Taylorsville, MS | |
| May 1, 5:08 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Taylorsville, MS | TREES DOWN OVER MOST OF COUNTY. |
| May 1, 5:08 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 4 W Bay Springs, MS | NICKEL AND DIME SIZE HAIL ON HWY 528. ALSO TREE DOWN ACROSS HWY 528 IN LAKE COMO AREA. |
| May 1, 5:10 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 3 W Bay Springs, MS | HAIL REPORTED ON HWY 528 NEAR HOLDERS CHURCH. TREE ACROSS ROAD ON HWY 528. |
| May 1, 5:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Bay Springs, MS | TREES DOWN ON DENTIST OFFICE. RADIO ATTENNA ON BUSINESS BUILDING. |
| May 1, 5:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Bay Springs, MS | TREES DOWN ON INTERSTATE 59 AT MARKER 117. TREES DOWN OUTSIDE OF CD OFFICE. |
| May 1, 5:35 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Bay Springs, MS | SOME TREES, POWER LINES, AND PHONE SYSTEMS DOWN. ALSO IN LAKE COMO AREA. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
776 WFUS54 KJAN 012147 TORJAN MSC061-129-012245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 446 PM CDT SAT MAY 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 442 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TAYLORSVILLE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLLINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... STRINGER BY 500 PM CDT BAY SPRINGS BY 510 PM CDT PAULDING BY 540 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. IN ADDITION TO A POSSIBLE TORNADO...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3180 8948 3181 8930 3197 8891 3217 8909 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 28 min |
| May 1, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 30 min |
| May 1, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 46 min |
| May 1, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 45 min |
| May 1, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 43 min |
| May 1, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 44 min |
| May 1, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 57 min |
| May 1, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 57 min |
| May 1, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 60 min |
| May 1, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 46 min |
| May 1, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 46 min |
| May 1, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 44 min |
| May 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 45 min |
| May 1, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 41 min |
| May 1, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 28 min |
| May 1, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 22 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.