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Tornado Warning 28, NWS New Orleans, LA

November 24, 1996Wilkinson County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 1996, 5:38 PM CST for Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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 24, 1996, 5:38 PM CST (23:38 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 1996, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Wilkinson County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 242339 RRA
TORNEW
MSC157-250015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
538 PM CST SUN NOV 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CST
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN WILKINSON COUNTY
 
AT 537 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SLIDELL AND JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR THE
WILKINSON AREA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
AND WILL APPROACH THE ROSETTA AREA BY 550 PM.
 
 
 
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
Nov 24, 4:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	42 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.