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Tornado Warning 30, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 22, 2000Hancock County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 4:42 PM CDT for Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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: Jul 22, 2000, 4:42 PM CDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Hancock County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 27 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: 2327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -30 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.

953 
WFUS54 KLIX 222142
TORNEW
MSC045-222230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
442 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BAY ST. LOUIS AND DIAMONDHEAD  

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 439 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  KILN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF DIAMONDHEAD...MOVING SOUTH AT 15
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  3 MILES EAST OF KILN AT 450 PM CDT
  DIAMONDHEAD AT 505 PM CDT
  BAY ST. LOUIS AT 520 PM CDT
  
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison	65 min
Jul 22, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	59 min
Jul 22, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison	36 min
Jul 22, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	59 min
Jul 22, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jackson	40 min
Jul 22, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	49 min
Jul 22, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Walthall	32 min
Jul 22, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	28 min
Jul 22, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock	37 min
Jul 22, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock	28 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.