Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 6:05 PM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 5, 2004, 6:05 PM CST (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2004, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
889
WFUS54 KMEG 060005
TORMEM
MSC081-060045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
604 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 645 PM CST
* AT 604 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF
TUPELO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 645 PM CST INCLUDE...
TUPELO...VERONA...
SALTILLO...BLAIR...
GUNTOWN...BALDWYN...
PRATTS FRIENDSHIP...
.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 3435 8887 3411 8881 3412 8855 3455 8856
3452 8875
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 89 min |
| Mar 5, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 6:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee, Prentiss | 114 min |
| Mar 5, 6:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 6:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Tishomingo | 117 min |
| Mar 5, 6:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 51 min |
| Mar 5, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 39 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.