5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 5, 2:55 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 255 PM CST FRI MAR 5 2004 .DISCUSSION...SEVERE WEATHER?...FLOODING? BOTH REMAIN UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME. EXPECTED WIDESPREAD RAIN TO HAVE DEVELOPED BY NOW...WITH MORE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN TRAINING OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...MAINLY EAST AS THE NEXT DISTURBANCE MOVED THROUGH THE REGION. THE FRONT STALLED ALONG THE MS RIVER THIS MORNING...HELPING THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA TO WARM THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. EVEN WITH DPTS NEAR 70...TEMPS CLIMBING INTO THE UPPER 70S AND WEAK INSTABILITY OVER THE AREA...HAVE YET TO SEE MUCH DEVELOPMENT. THERE WERE A FEW LIGHTNING STRIKES NORTH. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE BUILDING SOUTH ALONG THE FRONT IN THE MORE MOIST/UNSTABLE AIR OVER CENTRAL/SOUTH LA...SO WOULD LIKE TO WHAT HAPPENS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. A FEW OTHER STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MS. WITH IT RAINING ALL DAY WITH VERY FEW BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS...NOT SURE THERE WILL BE ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR MORE THAN A FEW STRONG STORMS. WILL PROBABLY MAKE AN ISSUANCE TIME DECISION ON CONTINUING THE FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT. WILL MAINTAIN ISOLATED SEVERE ALONG AND EAST OF I-55 IN THE HWO AND IN THE ZONES. THE BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO EDGE EAST SLOWLY...ORIENTED FROM AROUND BPT TO ESF TO JAN TO GTR AND POINTS NORTH/EAST THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS CONTINUE TO SWING THE UPPER LOW NORTH OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT...PUSHING THE BOUNDARY OFF TO THE EAST. MAINTAINED THE CURRENT FORECAST...WITH THE AREA CLEARING BY SATURDAY MORNING...BUT NOT SURE AT THIS POINT IF THE AREA WILL CLEAR...RAIN OR AT LEAST CLOUDS MAY NEED TO BE ADDED THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY. ANYWAY BEYOND TONIGHT DO NOT EXPECT MUCH THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. A FEW COLD FRONTS MOVE THROUGH THE REGION...BUT MODELS KEEP THEM DRY. EXPECT TEMPS TO BE AFFECTED...SO COOLED TEMPS A FEW DAYS. OTHERWISE CURRENT FORECAST OK. DID NOT MAKE ANY MAJOR CHANGES. JACKSON 55 70 42 64 / 80 0 0 0 MERIDIAN 57 71 41 65 / 100 10 0 0 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 324 PM CST FRI MAR 05 2004 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 060124- ADAMS-ASHLEY-ATTALA-BOLIVAR-CARROLL-CATAHOULA-CHICOT-CHOCTAW- CLAIBORNE-CLARKE-CLAY-CONCORDIA-COPIAH-COVINGTON-EAST CARROLL- FORREST-FRANKLIN LA-FRANKLIN MS-GRENADA-HINDS-HOLMES-HUMPHREYS- ISSAQUENA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-JONES-KEMPER-LAMAR- LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEAKE-LEFLORE-LINCOLN-LOWNDES-MADISON LA- MADISON MS-MARION-MONTGOMERY-MOREHOUSE-NESHOBA-NEWTON-NOXUBEE- OKTIBBEHA-RANKIN-RICHLAND-SCOTT-SHARKEY-SIMPSON-SMITH-SUNFLOWER- TENSAS-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WEST CARROLL-WINSTON-YAZOO- 324 PM CST FRI MAR 05 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND SATURDAY... ...THUNDERSTORMS... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MIDNIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...MAINLY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THE PRIMARY SEVERE CONCERN WILL BE FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 65 MPH...AND LARGE HAIL. A VERY SLIGHT POSSIBILITY FOR TORNADOES EXISTS AS WELL...MAINLY OVER THE EAST HALF OF MISSISSIPPI...GENERALLY EAST OF A WINONA TO UTICA TO NATCHEZ LINE. RESIDUAL SURFACE HEATING THIS EVENING AND INCREASING DIVERGENCE ALOFT SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME INTENSIFYING UPDRAFTS BEFORE MIDNIGHT. ATMOSPHERIC WIND PROFILES WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPORT ROTATING CELLS THAT WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH OR FASTER. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS THEY PASS. LATER TONIGHT...INSTABILITY WILL BE WEAKENING AND ALLOW THE STORMS TO DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST AS A WEAK COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE REGION. ...FLOODING... THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH MIDNIGHT ACROSS MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR AMOUNTS UP TO ONE INCH IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR THAT COULD CAUSE PONDING ON AREA ROADS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE MOST LIKELY AREA OF CONCERN WOULD BE EAST OF INTERSTATE 55 WHERE RAINS COULD PERSIST AFTER MIDNIGHT FOR A FEW HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING FOR MAINLY CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. OTHERWISE ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains caused a few streets in Greenwood to flood.
Heavy rains caused a few streets to flood in Grenada.
Several trees were blown down along Spell Road. A few trees were snapped on Mann Road.
A few trees were snapped and blown down.
A weak tornado briefly touched down 3 miles west-southwest of West. As the tornado moved northeast it tore siding off a building, blew an antenna down, damaged a poorly constructed outbuilding and blew down several small trees.
A couple of trees were blown down. Along county road 145, several large limbs were snapped.
A few trees were blown down 5 miles north of Kosciusko. Further north, a few trees were snapped at their base along Shady Grove Road.
Heavy rains caused a few roads to flood near Brozville.
Heavy rains caused a few roads to flood. As the water rose a few homes were threatened. The water subsided before any homes were affected.
Heavy rains caused a few streets to flood in Morton.
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, March 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: 5386904, 5386905, 5386906, 5386907, 5386908, 5386909, 5386910, 5386913, 5386911, 5386912.