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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Jackson, MS

May 1, 2004Kemper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2004, 6:17 PM CDT for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 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: May 1, 2004, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kemper County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 012317
TORJAN
MSC069-012345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
617 PM CDT SAT MAY 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST KEMPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 611 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF SCOOBA...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  LIVINGSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL KEMPER COUNTY AT 630 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.


LAT...LON 3282 8856 3272 8839 3291 8835 3291 8847

$$

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, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	58 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, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	22 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.