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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 29, 1995Pike County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT for Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 1995, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 448 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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 
TTAA00 KNEW 292106 RRA
SVRNEW
MSC113-292130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
404 PM CDT THU JUN 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 403 PM CDT...SLIDELL DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF MCCOMB. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY TO
OCCUR AS THESE STORMS MOVE NEAR SUMMIT AND CROSS I-55 BY 420 PM CDT.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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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.