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Tornado Warning 10, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 1999, 8:13 AM CST for Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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
- Jan 2, 1999, 8:13 AM CST (14:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1999, 8:45 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, MS
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 2, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 549 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 021413 RRA TORNEW MSC045-021445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 813 AM CST SAT JAN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS LA HAS ISSUED A... * TORNADO WARNING FOR - SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 845 AM CST * AT 811 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 24 MILES WEST OF BAY SAINT LOUIS OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEARLINGTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN AND NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... PEARLINGTON AT 820 AM CST KILN AT 840 AM CST IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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 WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 2, 8:13 AM CST, 0 minutes before
LAZ034>039-046>050-056>060-065>067-MSZ068>071-021500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 813 AM CST SAT JAN 2 1999 THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED EARLIER HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST THROUGH THE AREA. HOWEVER A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR A FEW HOURS. PRECIPITATION WILL GRADUALLY END FROM THE WEST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 31 min |
| Jan 2, 6:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike | 34 min |
| Jan 2, 6:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 34 min |
| Jan 2, 8:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 33 min |
| Jan 2, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 33 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.