Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 9:06 AM CST for Franklin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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
- Feb 5, 2004, 9:06 AM CST (15:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2004, 9:35 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 5:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 547 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 845 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KJAN 051506
TORJAN
MSC037-051535-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
905 AM CST THU FEB 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 935 AM CST
* AT 906 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEADVILLE...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTH OF
LIBERTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3153 9102 3138 9091 3152 9065 3160 9066
3159 9091
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Madison, Yazoo | 42 min |
| Feb 5, 6:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 60 min |
| Feb 5, 7:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Jefferson | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 7:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 60 min |
| Feb 5, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Feb 5, 8:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Feb 5, 8:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 9:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Feb 5, 9:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 9:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 9:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 19 min |
| Feb 5, 10:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Simpson | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 10:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 50 min |
| Feb 5, 10:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 11:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 11:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Smith | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 12:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 32 min |
| Feb 5, 12:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 12:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Newton | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 1:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 1:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 55 min |
| Feb 5, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 48 min |
| Feb 5, 1:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 66 min |
| Feb 5, 1:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 2:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 2:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 37 min |
| Feb 5, 2:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 43 min |
| Feb 5, 2:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln, Rankin, Simpson | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 43 min |
| Feb 5, 3:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 59 min |
| Feb 5, 4:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 4:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jasper, Smith | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 49 min |
| Feb 5, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 30 min |
| Feb 5, 5:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 36 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.