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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Memphis, TN

October 23, 2004Chickasaw County, Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2004, 6:27 PM CDT for Chickasaw County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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 23, 2004, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Oct 23, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Chickasaw County, MS, Monroe County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMEG 232327 CCA
TORMEM
MSC017-095-240015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
622 PM CDT SAT OCT 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  OKOLONA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEW WREN AROUND 635 PM CDT
  AMORY AROUND 650 PM CDT
  HATLEY AROUND 655 PM CDT

.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.

LAT...LON 3405 8885 3387 8887 3379 8835 3402 8832

$$

&&
CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION TIME

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	25 min
Oct 23, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	27 min
Oct 23, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	30 min
Oct 23, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee	38 min
Oct 23, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	24 min
Oct 23, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	51 min
Oct 23, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	38 min
Oct 23, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.