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Tornado Warning 84, NWS Memphis, TN

November 23, 2004Calhoun County, Lafayette County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 23, 2004, 8:03 PM CST for Calhoun County, Lafayette County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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, 8:03 PM CST (02:03 UTC)
Expired: Nov 23, 2004, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Calhoun County, MS, Lafayette County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMEG 240203
TORMEG
MSC013-071-240230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
803 PM CST TUE NOV 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  SOUTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 830 PM CST

* AT 803 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  PARIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 830 PM CST INCLUDE...
  TULA...
  DENMARK...
  CAMBRIDGE...

.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.

.THE TORNADO WILL LIKELY BE EMBEDDED IN RAIN. DO NOT BE LULLED INTO
THINKING THE THREAT IS OVER DUE TO THE RAINFALL. STAY IN SHELTER
UNTIL THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION INDICATES THE THREAT HAS PASSED.

.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 3409 8952 3403 8927 3447 8925 3451 8941

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 23, 6:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	24 min
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, 8:16 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

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.