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Tornado Warning 9, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 27, 1997Hancock County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1997, 6:16 PM CDT for Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 27, 1997, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Hancock County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 27 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: 2140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 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 272339 RRA
TORNEW
MSC045-272345-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
616 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 615 PM CDT THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN PEARLINGTON REPORTED A TORNADO
MOVING NORTHEAST.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE
OF STURDY FURNITURE. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WI\NDOWS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	2 hr
Jun 27, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock	51 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.