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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 27, 2000Wilkinson County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 1:55 PM CDT for Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2000, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wilkinson County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2000-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 812 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2000-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
812 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1430 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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 
WUUS54 KLIX 271858
SVRNEW
MSC157-271945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
155 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILKINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 150 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WILKINSON. MOVEMENT WAS STATIONARY.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH 
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NEW ORLEANS.

LAT...LON 3123 9141 3113 9123 3142 9095 3157 9121

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
1110 AM CDT THU 27 JUL 2000

WK SHEAR AXIS NE-SW ALOFT OVER SE LA/S MS WILL MOVE LITTLE NEXT 24
TO 36 HRS. MEAN RH CONTINUES TO INCREASE SLOWLY AS WELL AS PW'S.
THIS IS VERIFIED QUITE NICELY BY THE GOES SOUNDER OF THE N GULF.
LATEST RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED
SHOWERS/TSTMS FROM THE SE LA COAST SW INTO THE SW GULF. 12Z RAOBS
INDICATED THE ATMOSPHERE DTO BE UNSTABLE ENOUGH FOR WIDELY SCATTERED
SHOWERS/TSTMS OVER THE REGION LTHIS AFTERNOON..A LITTLE MORE
NUMEROUS S OF THE TIDAL LAKES. 500 MB TEMP WAS -10 WHICH IS A FEW
DEGS LOWER THAN NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. WET-BULB ZERO WAS
ABOUT 10.5K. CONVECTIVE TEMP NEAR 90F SO THAT TSTMS SHOULD CONTINUE
TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTN HOURS. LITTLE CHANGE INDICATED IN THE
WEATHER PATTERN FOR FRI.

.NEW...NONE.
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.
05

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-271700-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1050 AM CDT THU JUL 27 2000

INCREASING GULF MOISTURE AND RELATIVELY COOL TEMPERATURES ALOFT
ALONG WITH INTENSE SURFACE HEATING WILL HELP TO TRIGGER WIDELY
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. WEAK SEA BREEZE
AND LAKE BREEZE ALSO WILL LIKELY AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS.

SIGNIFICANT SEkVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON.

FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEB-SITE AT
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPearl River40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.