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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 27, 1997Pike County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1997, 4:42 PM CST for Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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: Jan 27, 1997, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1997, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jan 27, 5:00 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Magnolia, MS
Jan 27, 5:08 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Magnolia, MS
Jan 27, 5:15 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Magnolia, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 27, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 272243 RRA
SVRNEW
MSC113-272330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
442 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CST
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 442 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDESTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN AND
EASTERN AMITE COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
AND WILL MOVE ACROSS PIKE COUNTY.
 
THIE CITIES OF MCCOMB...MAGNOLIA...AND CHATAWA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
 
THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THIS STORM ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 27, 2:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	25 min
Jan 27, 3:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	36 min
Jan 27, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	42 min
Jan 27, 5:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.