Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 1996, 4:03 PM CST for Amite County, Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 1996, 4:03 PM CST (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1996, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Amite County, MS, Pike County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 4:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Homochitto, MS | |
| Feb 19, 4:35 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Liberty, MS | |
| Feb 19, 5:05 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Gillsburg, MS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 3:00 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
LAZ006-014-021-022028-029-032-033-043-044-052-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE 400 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996 ...THE TORNADO WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN NORTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...UNION...QUACHITA...CALDWELL... LASALLE...AVOYELLES...EVANGELENE...ST LANDRY...ACADIA...LAFAYETTE ...VERNON... THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CONTINUES OVER EAST CENTpRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 7 PM.
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 4:00 PM CST, 3 minutes before
LAZ006-014-021-022028-029-032-033-043-044-052-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE 400 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996 ...THE TORNADO WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN NORTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA...UNION...QUACHITA...CALDWELL... LASALLE...AVOYELLES...EVANGELENE...ST LANDRY...ACADIA...LAFAYETTE ...VERNON... THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CONTINUES OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 7 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 64 min |
| Feb 19, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 64 min |
| Feb 19, 1:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 56 min |
| Feb 19, 2:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 26 min |
| Feb 19, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 42 min |
| Feb 19, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 66 min |
| Feb 19, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 65 min |
| Feb 19, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 30 min |
| Feb 19, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.