Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 21, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 11:13 AM CDT for Hancock County, Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 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
- Apr 3, 2000, 11:13 AM CDT (16:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, MS, Pearl River 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 031614 TORNEW MSC045-109-031715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1113 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1215 PM CDT * AT 1113 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WEST OF SLIDELL OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PICAYUNE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... PICAYUNE MCNEILL CAESAR SELLERS SANTA ROSA GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT AND GO TO A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD! REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL REL5AY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NEW ORLEANS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 64 min |
| Apr 2, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 64 min |
| Apr 2, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 20 min |
| Apr 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 7:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 9:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 12:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 1:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 67 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.