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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 10:52 PM CDT for Grenada County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 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 30, 2004, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Grenada County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 3112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.7
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 310352 TORJAN MSC043-310445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1052 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRENADA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1048 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLCOMB...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF GREENWOOD AIRPORT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GRENADA BY 1110 PM CDT GRENADA LAKE BY 1120 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 LAT...LON 3377 9009 3368 9008 3369 8953 3387 8953 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 63 min |
| May 30, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada, Leflore | 38 min |
| May 30, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery, Webster | 59 min |
| May 30, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 24 min |
| May 30, 11:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore | 6 hr |
| May 30, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington | 6 hr |
| May 31, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 44 min |
| May 31, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Montgomery | 44 min |
| May 31, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 48 min |
| May 31, 12:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 39 min |
| May 31, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Oktibbeha | 47 min |
| May 31, 1:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 43 min |
| May 31, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Leflore | 57 min |
| May 31, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 48 min |
| May 31, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 47 min |
| May 31, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 31 min |
| May 31, 5:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 3 hr |
| May 31, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 20 min |
| May 31, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 43 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.