Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 25, 1996, 12:23 AM CST for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 22 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
- Nov 25, 1996, 12:23 AM CST (06:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 25, 1996, 12:45 AM CST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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
Local storm report, Nov 24, 6:40 PM CST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
637 PM CST SUN NOV 24 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION......STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION.....
0537 PM ST ROSE LA TORNADO
11/24/96 ST. CHARLES TOUCHED DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY
48. A GAS LINE WAS
RUPTURED PRODUCING A GAS
LEAK. SOME MINOR
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.
REPORTED BY ST CHARLES
S.O. RELAYED BY TROOP B.
0554 PM 10 E BAKER LA TORNADO
11/24/96 E BATON ROUGE A WHITE PLYMOUTH VOYAGER
VAN WAS LIFTED ONTO THE
ROOF OF A HOUSE AND
ROLLED OFF THE ROOF.
MINOR TREE LIMB DAMAGE
ALSO REPORTED ON TALLOWOOD ST.
REPORTED BY E BATON ROUGE
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
24Special weather statement, Nov 24, 7:31 PM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes before
LAZ049-056-029-048-036-046-061-068-059-067-050-062-063-069-034- 064-070-060-037-057-058-054-040-038-065-066-039-047-035-250230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 731 PM CST SUN NOV 24 1996 ...STRONG STORMS ARE APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE WEST... A SQUALL LINE LOCATED FROM LAFAYETTE TO FRANKLIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CST. THE BATON ROUGE METRO AREA CAN EXPECT THIS SQUALL LINE TO MOVE THROUGH AROUND 830 PM. THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA CAN SEE STRONG STORMS AROUND 10 PM. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD WEATHER THREATEN YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TV...RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MEANWHILE...HAVE A PLAN OF ACTION PREPARED IN THE EVENT SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 7:32 PM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
LAZ049-056-029-048-036-046-061-068-059-067-050-062-063-069-034- 064-070-060-037-057-058-054-040-038-065-066-039-047-035-250230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 731 PM CST SUN NOV 24 1996 ...STRONG STORMS ARE APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE WEST... A SQUALL LINE LOCATED FROM LAFAYETTE TO FRANKLIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CST. THE BATON ROUGE METRO AREA CAN EXPECT THIS SQUALL LINE TO MOVE THROUGH AROUND 830 PM. THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA CAN SEE STRONG STORMS AROUND 10 PM. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD WEATHER THREATEN YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TV...RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MEANWHILE..2.HAVE A PLAN OF ACTION PREPARED IN THE EVENT SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Iberville | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 8:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 54 min |
| Nov 24, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 9:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston | 28 min |
| Nov 24, 9:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 28 min |
| Nov 24, 10:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 44 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.