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Tornado Warning 85, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Dec 7, 2004, 2:13 AM CST for Chickasaw County, Lee County, Pontotoc County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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
- Dec 7, 2004, 2:13 AM CST (08:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 2004, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chickasaw County, MS, Lee County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 11:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 070813 TORMEG MSC017-081-115-070900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 213 AM CST TUE DEC 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHICKASAW COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI PONTOTOC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 300 AM CST * AT 213 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER HOULKA...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM THROUGH 300 AM CST INCLUDE... TROY...FURRS... SHANNON...VERONA... .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. .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 3423 8902 3398 8907 3397 8877 3431 8855 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 1:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Yalobusha | 2 hr |
| Dec 7, 2:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 26 min |
| Dec 7, 2:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 29 min |
| Dec 7, 2:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 114 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.