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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2004, 6:23 PM CST for Itawamba County, Prentiss County, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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, 6:23 PM CST (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2004, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Itawamba County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tishomingo 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
538 WFUS54 KMEG 060023 TORMEM MSC057-117-141-060100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 623 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ITAWAMBA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TISHOMINGO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 623 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF MARIETTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 700 PM CST INCLUDE... BURTON...THRASHERS... PADEN...TISHOMINGO... IUKA...MIDAY... .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 3459 8865 3442 8848 3443 8817 3497 8818 $$
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, 6:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 40 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, 6:33 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 |
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.