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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 10, 1998Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT for Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 10, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

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 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1998-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 982 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1998-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
982 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHarrison, Jackson47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.