Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS New Orleans, LA

Issued

Jul 27, 2000, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)

Expired

Jul 27, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS New Orleans, LA

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pearl River County, MS

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.

000 
WUUS54 KLIX 272052
SVRNEW
MSC109-272130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 346 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCNEIL...OR
  ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF BOGALUSA. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  INTERSTATE 59 BETWEEN MCNEIL AND POPLARVILLE...AND 5 TO 10 MILES
  EAST OF BOGALUSA THROUGH 430 PM CDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WHICH WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND 
GUSTS...LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY3. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN NEW ORLEANS.

LAT...LON 3062 8970 3074 8942 3094 8972 3074 8978

NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 3:05 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
300 PM CDT THU 27 JUL 2000

WK SHEAR AXIS NE-SW ALOFT OVER SE LA/S MS WILL MOVE LITTLE NEXT 24
TO 36 HRS BUT WEAKENS BY SAT AS ANOTHER S/W TROF MOVES SWD IN THE
NLY FLOW ACROSS THE MS VALLEY. LATEST SOUNDER DATA SUGGEST PW'S
HIGHER THAN LATEST MODEL RUNS INDICATED. FAIRLY GOOD COVERAGE OF
SHOWERS AND TSTMS IN S MS THIS AFTN IN AREA OF HIGHEST THETA-E
VALUES. LONGER RANGE PROGS CONTINUE THE STRONG AMPLITUDE OF RIDGE IN
THE WRN STATES AND TROFING IN THE MS VALLEY-ERN STATES. MINOR S/W
TROFS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE TOP OF THE RIDGE AND THEN
TURN SWD INTO THE MS VALLEY/GULF COAST REGION. TEMPS ALOFT REMAIN
COOLER THAN NORMAL WITH LOWER THAN NORMAL WET-BULB ZEROS. LITTLE
MOVEMENT IN INDIVIDUAL CELLS SUGGEST LOCALLY HVY RAINS OF 2 TO 3
INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

IN THE EXTENDED PACKAGE...LITTLE CHANGE INDICATED IN THE WIDELY
SCATTERED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION MOSTLY AFTNS/EVENINGS.

MCB 67/95/68/93 1212    BTR 71/93/72/93 0212
MSY 73/92/73/93 1213    GPT 71/89/72/90 1212

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

In the hours 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).

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

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.