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Tornado Warning 65, NWS New Orleans, LA

December 17, 1995Amite County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 17, 1995, 3:15 PM CST for Amite County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 17, 1995, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Dec 17, 1995, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Amite County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 172116
TORNEW
MSC005-172145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
315 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CST
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...AMITE COUNTY
 
AT 313 PM CST...SLIDELL DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
POSSIBLY CONTAINING TORNADOES MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF AMITE
COUNTY AT 35 TO 40 MPH.
 
PERSONS IN SOUTHERN AMITE COUNTY...PARTICULARLY IN THE COMMUNITIES OF
STREET AND GILLSBURG...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.  THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS
A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND SEVERAL TORNADOES ALREADY THIS
AFTERNOON.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 17, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pike	45 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.