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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Jackson, MS

October 19, 20044 counties in Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 19, 2004, 3:10 PM CDT for 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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: Oct 19, 2004, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Oct 19, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Attala County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 19, 9:05 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Oct 19, 12:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 2735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.8
Supercell composite: 16.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 192010
TORJAN
MSC007-051-089-163-192045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
310 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ATTALA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF
  PICKENS...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF YAZOO CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PICKENS BY 315 PM CDT
  GOODMAN BY 320 PM CDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3302 9017 3288 9017 3276 8975 3302 8973

$$

GRG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 18, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay, Webster	30 min
Oct 18, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay	14 min
Oct 19, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	45 min
Oct 19, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery	56 min
Oct 19, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	25 min
Oct 19, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	24 min
Oct 19, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	44 min
Oct 19, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	46 min
Oct 19, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	47 min
Oct 19, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	17 min
Oct 19, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	44 min
Oct 19, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	51 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.