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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 10:13 PM CDT for Panola County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Panola 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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.
732 WFUS54 KMEG 310313 TORMEM MSC107-310345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1013 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1013 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BATESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1045 PM CDT INCLUDE... BATESVILLE...COURTLAND... ENDVILLE...SARDIS... GLENVILLE... .IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. .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. .STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5. LAT...LON 3436 9013 3423 9005 3425 8975 3455 8975 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 29 min |
| May 30, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Marshall | 30 min |
| May 30, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 25 min |
| May 30, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 28 min |
| May 30, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 43 min |
| May 30, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 51 min |
| May 30, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 31 min |
| May 30, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 43 min |
| May 30, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah, Union | 36 min |
| May 30, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 30 min |
| May 30, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 34 min |
| May 30, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 37 min |
| May 30, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 45 min |
| May 30, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 23 min |
| May 30, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 22 min |
| May 30, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 35 min |
| May 30, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 23 min |
| May 30, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 17 min |
| May 30, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe | 49 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.