Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 1996, 6:26 PM CST for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 1996, 6:26 PM CST (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1996, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pearl River County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
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, 3 hours 26 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, 2 hours 26 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.
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.