1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 3, 1:27 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 227 PM CDT THU JUN 3 2004 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE MAP THIS AFTERNOON PLACES A STATIONARY FRONT FROM MIDDLE TN THROUGH NORTHEAST MS INTO AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE NEAR OXFORD MS. A COLD FRONT THEN EXTENDS FROM THE LOW THROUGH NORTHERN LA. ALOFT...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ASSOCIATED WITH COLD AIR ALOFT. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FIRED THIS AFTERNOON WHERE ENOUGH SUN HAS POKED THROUGH THE CLOUDS AND AHEAD OF THE LEADING EDGE OF THE COLD POOL. THE COLD POOL ALOFT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH MOST OF THE REGION DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THE AIR IN THE COLD POCKET ITSELF IS SUBSIDING...PREVENTING CONVECTION. HOWEVER...ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS COLD POCKET THERE IS STEEP MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES WHICH CAN ADD TO THE INSTABILITY ALREADY PRESENT. SO...EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS STILL ACROSS WEST TN AND NORTH MS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THEN JUST A SLIGHT CHANCE EARLY THIS EVENING EAST DUE TO TIMING OF THE COLD POOL ALOFT. DRY FORECAST FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WITH NO SYSTEMS AROUND. EXPECT AFTERNOON CUMULUS BOTH DAYS WITH MAINLY CLEAR NIGHTS. 850 TEMPS AROUND +12 ON FRIDAY CORRELATE TO TEMPS NEAR 80 OR IN THE LOW 80S. 850 TEMPS JUST A TOUCH WARMER SATURDAY TRANSLATING INTO LOW TO MID 80S. THE FRONT TO THE SOUTH WILL SLOWLY RETURN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS A WARM FRONT. HAVE POPS IN MAINLY FOR SUNDAY AS THE WARM FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. GFS HITS ON A COMPLEX RIDING ALONG THE FRONT INTO THE REGION SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. NOT REAL CONFIDENT IN THIS SOLN SINCE THIS COMPLEX IS ASSOCIATED WITH NO OBVIOUS SYSTEMS. WILL KEEP A SLIGHT MENTION INTO MONDAY WITH THE FRONT STILL NEARBY BUT BY TUESDAY THE WARM FRONT SHOULD BE WELL NORTH. FROM TUESDAY ONWARD...PRETTY MUCH DEALING WITH HEAT OF THE DAY VARIETY THUNDERSTORMS WITH NO SIGNIFICANT SYSTEMS IMPACTING THE REGION THROUGH FRIDAY. && .MEG...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MS...NONE. MO...NONE. TN...NONE. && VALLE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1033 AM CDT THU JUN 3 2004 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-041100- ALCORN-BENTON-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DECATUR-DESOTO-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)-MADISON- MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT-PHILLIPS- POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY-ST. FRANCIS- TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-UNION-WEAKLEY- YALOBUSHA- 1033 AM CDT THU JUN 3 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF WEST TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING. THE COMBINATION OF A STATIONARY FRONT STALLED ACROSS THE REGION...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OVER WEST TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALONG WITH AFTERNOON HEATING COULD RESULT IN THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREAT ALTHOUGH LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS CAN NOT BE ENTIRELY RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG. VALLE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado briefly touched down near Sumner producing little damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Mississippi, 2004Warnings in Mississippi, June 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5406046, 5406047.