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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 26, 2000Pike County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2000, 7:36 PM CDT for Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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: Aug 26, 2000, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Magnolia, MS	A tree was blown down along Highway 48.

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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1635 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KLIX 270038
SVRNEW
MSC113-270100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
736 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN PIKE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF MCCOMB TO LEGGETT...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

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

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 Aug 26, 2:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA
228 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2000

MID/UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL
CONTINUE TO BE THE DOMINATE WEATHER FEATURE DURING THIS FORECAST
PERIOD. THIS WILL MEAN A CONTINUATION OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES
AND BELOW NORMAL POPS. MODELS GRADUALLY SHIFT THIS RIDGE A LITTLE
TO THE E AND NE WITH TIME. THE FLOW ALOFT WILL REMAIN FROM THE N AND
NE WITH THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINING
QUITE DRY. A NUMBER OF SHORTWAVES MOVING AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF
THE RIDGE SHOULD MAINLY AFFECT AREAS TO THE E AND NE OF THE FORECAST
AREA DURING THE PERIOD. A WEAK SEA BREEZE SUN AND MON AFTERNOON MAY
SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION...HOWEVER WILL ONLY INDICATE
ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED POPS THROUGH THE PERIOD.

MCB 70/97/71/96 1101    BTR 74/95/74/95 1101
MSY 76/95/76/94 1101    GPT 73/94/73/93 1212

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	46 min
Aug 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock	37 min
Aug 26, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike	31 min
Aug 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Harrison	48 min
Aug 27, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2000 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.