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Tornado Warning 1, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 26, 1996Amite County, Pike County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 26, 1996, 12:11 PM CST for Amite County, Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. 2 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: Jan 26, 1996, 12:11 PM CST (18:11 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 1996, 1:00 PM CST
In force: 49 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
Jan 26, 12:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberty, MS
Jan 26, 12:35 PM CST	Hail 1	Mc Comb, 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, 6.2 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 439 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 532 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 261813
TORNEW
MSC005-113-261900-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1211 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 PM CST
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN AMITE COUNTY...SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 12:10 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR GILLSBURG IN
SOUTHEAST AMITE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH. THE COMMUNITIES OF MAGNOILA, CHATAWA AND OSYKA ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 11:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	62 min
Jan 26, 11:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike	66 min
Jan 26, 12:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Walthall	46 min
Jan 26, 12:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	52 min
Jan 26, 1:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	53 min
Jan 26, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Walthall	45 min
Jan 26, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	45 min

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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.