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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Memphis, TN

October 18, 2004Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2004, 7:25 PM CDT for Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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 18, 2004, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 18, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 3284 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.1
Supercell composite: 18.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMEG 190025
TORMEM
MSC095-190115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
726 PM CDT MON OCT 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 726 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  PRAIRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 815 PM CDT INCLUDE...
  PRAIRIE...
  ABERDEEN...

.IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...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 3373 8899 3358 8887 3375 8849 3394 8863

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 18, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	41 min
Oct 18, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Monroe	48 min
Oct 18, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Prentiss, Union	31 min
Oct 18, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Prentiss	49 min
Oct 18, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	51 min
Oct 19, 4:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	36 min
Oct 19, 5:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Union	2 hr
Oct 19, 5:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Tate	115 min
Oct 19, 5:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	2 hr
Oct 19, 6:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lee	118 min
Oct 19, 6:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Itawamba	115 min
Oct 19, 7:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Union	61 min
Oct 19, 7:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	97 min
Oct 19, 8:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lee	62 min
Oct 19, 8:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Itawamba	66 min
Oct 19, 10:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	29 min
Oct 19, 11:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Union	36 min
Oct 19, 11:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Union	47 min
Oct 19, 12:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	41 min
Oct 19, 12:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Union	114 min
Oct 19, 12:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	28 min
Oct 19, 12:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lee	54 min
Oct 19, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	49 min
Oct 19, 12:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	40 min
Oct 19, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	19 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.