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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 12:46 AM CDT for Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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 31, 2004, 12:46 AM CDT (05:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2004, 1:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 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, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 4361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.4
- Supercell composite
- 17.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
626 WFUS54 KJAN 310546 TORJAN MSC151-310625- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1245 AM CDT MON MAY 31 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 125 AM CDT * AT 1242 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GREENVILLE BY 1250 AM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3342 9113 3330 9113 3329 9077 3348 9076 $$
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, 10:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 53 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, 12:58 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.