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Tornado Warning 1, NWS New Orleans, LA

February 5, 2004Wilkinson County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2004, 9:32 AM CST for Wilkinson 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: Feb 5, 2004, 9:32 AM CST (15:32 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2004, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilkinson 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 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

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The text

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

852 
WFUS54 KLIX 051532
TORNEW
MSC157-051600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
931 AM CST THU FEB 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WILKINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1000 AM CST

* AT 925 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF FORT  
   ADAMS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE FORT 
ADAMS...LESSLEY... WOODVILLE.

SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3108 9176 3101 9149 3118 9110 3148 9136

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 4, 11:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	46 min
Feb 5, 9:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	42 min
Feb 5, 10:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	44 min
Feb 5, 10:52 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	3 hr
Feb 5, 11:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	46 min
Feb 5, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	52 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.