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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS New Orleans, LA

March 18, 1996Amite County, Pike County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1996, 1:35 PM CST for Amite County, Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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
Mar 18, 1996, 1:35 PM CST (19:35 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 1996, 2:15 PM CST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Amite County, MS, Pike County, MS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 18, 2:00 PM CSTThunderstorm WindMc Comb, MS
Mar 18, 2:25 PM CSTHail 1.75Progress, MS
Mar 18, 2:25 PM CSTThunderstorm WindProgress, 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, 7.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1996-03-18Temperature 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1996-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 7:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee, West Feliciana47 min
Mar 17, 8:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana65 min
Mar 17, 9:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany66 min
Mar 17, 10:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee57 min
Mar 17, 11:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana55 min
Mar 17, 11:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Feliciana57 min
Mar 17, 11:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Helena69 min
Mar 17, 11:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWest Feliciana34 min
Mar 18, 12:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Feliciana47 min
Mar 18, 12:20 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXTangipahoa55 min
Mar 18, 12:43 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLivingston47 min
Mar 18, 12:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWashington37 min
Mar 18, 1:01 AM CSTTornado WarningLIXWashington29 min
Mar 18, 2:08 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Tammany37 min
Mar 18, 12:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Feliciana, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana47 min
Mar 18, 12:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXEast Baton Rouge47 min
Mar 18, 2:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXTangipahoa35 min
Mar 17, 7:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWilkinson62 min
Mar 17, 8:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite, Wilkinson70 min
Mar 17, 9:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXAmite63 min
Mar 17, 10:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPike55 min
Mar 18, 1:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPearl River50 min
Mar 18, 2:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHancock41 min
Mar 18, 2:29 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHarrison31 min
Mar 18, 2:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJackson55 min
Mar 18, 2:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJackson40 min
Mar 18, 3:29 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXJackson16 min
Mar 18, 2:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXWalthall43 min
Mar 18, 2:27 PM CSTTornado WarningLIXWalthall33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.