Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 20, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 1996, 8:20 PM CDT for Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 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
- Aug 12, 1996, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 2787 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 130129 COR TORNEW MSC047-130145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED TO HARRISON INSTEAD OF HANCOCK COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 820 PM CDT MON AUG 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...HARRISON COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 815 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED A REPORT BY THE HANCOCK COUNTY EOC OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF BAY ST LOUIS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST ABOUT 30 MPH. RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THIS SAME AREA. THESE REPORTS WERE FROM THE PUBLIC. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE COMMUNITIES OF GULFPORT AND PASS CHRISTIAN. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
1 follow-up statement
000 TTAA00 KNEW 130123 RRA TORNEW MSC045-130145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 820 PM CDT MON AUG 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...HANCOCK COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 815 PM CDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS RECEIVED A REPORT BY THE HANCOCK COUNTY EOC OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF BAY ST LOUIS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST ABOUT 30 MPH. RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THIS SAME AREA. THESE REPORTS WERE FROM THE PUBLIC. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE COMMUNITIES OF GULFPORT AND PASS CHRISTIAN. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.