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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Memphis, TN

October 18, 2004Pemiscot County, Missouri

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2004, 7:56 PM CDT for Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 18, 2004, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pemiscot County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	Cooter, MO	TORNADO DESTROYED HOME JUST EAST OF COOTER WITH ONE FATALITY AND THREE MISSING. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	Cooter, MO	TORNADO DESTROYED HOME JUST EAST OF COOTER WITH ONE FATALITY AND THREE MISSING. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	Cooter, MO	TORNADO DESTROYED HOME JUST EAST OF COOTER WITH ONE FATALITY AND THREE MISSING. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	Cooter, MO	TORNADO DESTROYED HOME JUST EAST OF COOTER WITH ONE FATALITY AND THREE MISSING. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	Cooter, MO	HOME DAMAGED JUST EAST OF COOTER. UNKNOWN INJURED/MISSING. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	Cooter, MO	HOME DAMAGED JUST EAST OF COOTER. UNKNOWN INJURED/MISSING. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	Cooter, MO	HOME DAMAGED JUST EAST OF COOTER. UNKNOWN INJURED/MISSING. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Oct 18, 8:00 PM CDT	TORNADO	Cooter, MO	HOME DAMAGED JUST EAST OF COOTER. UNKNOWN INJURED/MISSING. REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 190056
TORMEM
MOC155-190130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PEMISCOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 756 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF   
COOTER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.  THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM 
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A MAJOR KILLER TORNADO.


.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 3616 8984 3598 8983 3600 8971 3616 8960

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 18, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dunklin, Pemiscot	47 min
Oct 18, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dunklin, Pemiscot	43 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.