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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 3, 1996Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 5:26 PM CDT for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1996, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Harrison County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 248 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.