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Tornado Warning 83, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 6:36 PM CST for Yalobusha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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
- Nov 23, 2004, 6:36 PM CST (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2004, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Yalobusha County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 6:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMEG 240036
TORMEG
MSC161-240100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
636 PM CST TUE NOV 23 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
YALOBUSHA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 700 PM CST
* AT 636 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
SCOBEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 700 PM CST INCLUDE...
TILLATOBA...
COFFEEVILLE...
VELMA...
.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 3390 8993 3389 8969 3411 8951 3414 8978
3399 8991
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 30 min |
| Nov 23, 7:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 2 hr |
| Nov 23, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Pontotoc | 32 min |
| Nov 23, 7:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 119 min |
| Nov 23, 8:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 29 min |
| Nov 23, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 29 min |
| Nov 23, 8:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Pontotoc, Union | 113 min |
| Nov 23, 9:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 21 min |
| Nov 23, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 30 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.