Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 29, 1996, 9:26 AM CST for Amite 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
- Dec 29, 1996, 9:26 AM CST (15:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 29, 1996, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 34 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, 3.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
214 WUUS1 KNEW 291529 RRA SVRNEW MSC005-291600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 926 AM CST SUN DEC 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...AMITE COUNTY AT 924 AM CST...RADAR IN SLIDELL INDICATED A SQUALL LINE OF STRONG STORMS MOVING INTO THE COUNTY FROM WILKINSON COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED NEAR THE GLOSTER AND CENTERVILLE AREAS. THIS SQUALL LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE LIBERTY AND GILLSBURG AREAS THROUGH 10 AM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Dec 29, 3:56 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-281030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 355 AM CST SUN DEC 29 1996 A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND COASTAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING. AT 3 AM CST IN NEW ORLEANS MOSIANT AIRPORT AND BELL CHASE HAD 1/2 MILE IN FOG AND LAKEFRONT AIRPORT HAD 1/16 OF A MILE IN FOG. BATON ROUGE HAD 3/4 OF A MILE IN LIGHT RAIN AND FOG. IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI MCCOMB HAD 1/4 OF A MILE IN DRIZZLE AND FOG WHILE KEESLER AFB ON THE COAST WAS REPORTING 1/16 OF A MILE IN FOG. THE FOG IS EXPECTED TO DISSIPATE BY MID TO LATE MORNING. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING THIS MRORNING. BE SURE TO USE YOUR LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND MAINTAIN PLENTY OF DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE VEHICLE AHEAD OF YOU. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 7:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 66 min |
| Dec 29, 8:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 31 min |
| Dec 29, 8:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 32 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.