3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Apr 29, 7:50 PM CST, 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 850 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2005 .UPDATE...LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A STRONG SHORT WAVE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. STATIONARY BOUNDARY WAS NOTED JUST NORTHWEST OF THE FORECAST AREA...WAITING FOR THE APPROACH OF THE STRONG UPPER SHORT WAVE. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST DELTA REGION OF MISSISSIPPI. CURRENT FORECAST APPEARS TO BE ON TRACK AS THE COLD FRONT AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. CURRENT FORECAST TEMPS AND POPS STILL APPEAR TO BE ON TRACK. && .AVIATION...WILL CONTINUE WITH CONVECTION IN THE TAFS WITH STRONGER GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST TAFS...WHERE BETTER JET DYNAMICS WILL TAKE PLACE. && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM: 17
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 645 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2005 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 302342- 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- 642 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND SATURDAY... ...THUNDERSTORMS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...EAST LOUISIANA...AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR NORTH OF A LINE FROM BASTROP LOUISIANA...TO HOLLANDALE...VAIDEN...AND EUPORA MISSISSIPPI. HERE...THE COMBINATION OF MOISTURE...INSTABILITY...AND WIND SHEAR (WHICH IS THE CHANGE IN WIND DIRECTION/SPEED WITH HEIGHT) WILL ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHERN LOUISIANA...THEN MOVE ACROSS THIS AREA BETWEEN 8 PM AND 5 AM. TORNADOES...HAIL GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES AN HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ANOTHER UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT FURTHER SOUTHEAST INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TONIGHT. AS THESE FEATURES MOVE INTO OUR AREA OVERNIGHT...A SQUALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. EVEN THOUGH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL APPEAR TO BE THE GREATEST RISK WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT...EXITING SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TOWARD SUNRISE. RIGHT NOW...IT LOOKS LIKE THE GREATEST RISK OF SEEING SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 8 PM AND 11 PM ACROSS THE ARKLAMISS REGION...BETWEEN 11 PM AND 2 AM AROUND A LINE FROM BROOKHAVEN TO COLUMBUS...AND BETWEEN 1 AM AND 5 AM OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. ...FLOODING... HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN THE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS ACROSS AREAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM BASTROP LOUISIANA...TO CARTHAGE AND COLUMBUS MISSISSIPPI. AS THUNDERSTORMS EVOLVE THIS EVENING...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS THAT A FEW STORMS WILL MOVE REPEATEDLY ACROSS THE SAME AREA. THE COMBINATION OF SEVERAL ROUNDS OF INTENSE STORMS...AND A SQUALL LINE MOVING THROUGH THE REGION...WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL TO SEE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN A 3 HOUR PERIOD. AT THIS TIME...AREAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM GREENVILLE TO LEXINGTON TO KILMICHAEL HAVE THE HIGHEST RISK OF SEEING THIS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .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 SPOTTER GROUPS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...WILL BE NEEDED TONIGHT. OTHERWISE...ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
920 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0917 PM TSTM WND DMG SHAW 33.60N 90.77W
04/29/2005 BOLIVAR MS EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
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AEGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
938 PM CDT FRI APR 29 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0915 PM TORNADO 2 SE SHAW 33.58N 90.75W
04/29/2005 SUNFLOWER MS LAW ENFORCEMENT
SHAW PD REPORTED TORNADO ON THE GROUND SOUTHEAST OF SHAW.
REPORT RELAYED BY BOLIVAR EOC.
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AEGThe Shreveport radar (KSHV), 184 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:42 UTC.
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter to baseball sized hail briefly fell west and to the north of Bastrop.
Several large limbs were blown down around the area. A few of these large limbs took down a power line.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, April 2005
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5451209, 5451210, 5451262, 5451263.