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Tornado Warning 5, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 2, 1999Walthall County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 1999, 6:26 AM CST for Walthall County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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 2, 1999, 6:26 AM CST (12:26 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 1999, 7:00 AM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Walthall County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 2, 7:00 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexie, MS	Thunderstorm winds caused damge to roofs and knocked down trees around the community of Lexie.

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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 021226 RRA
TORNEW
LAC105-117-MSC113-147-021300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
626 AM CST SAT JAN 2 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS LA HAS ISSUED A...

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
   - NORTHERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA
   - WASHINGTON PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA
   - SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
   - SOUTHERN WALTHALL COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 700 AM CST

* AT 623 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF TYLERTOWN MOVING EAST AT
  40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN AND NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  TYLERTOWN AT 639 AM CST
  KNOXO AT 647 AM CST
  DEXTER AT 652 AM CST
  MOUNT HERMAN AT 636 AM

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 FUtRNITURE. 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
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, 8:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock	32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.