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Tornado Warning 31, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 4:54 PM CDT for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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 22, 2000, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Harrison County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
082 WFUS54 KLIX 222154 TORNEW MSC047-222230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 454 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BILOXI...GULFPORT * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 449 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO OVER DELISLE OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF GULFPORT...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 2 MILES EAST OF GULFPORT AT 500 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. LAT...LON 3053 8897 3048 8917 3002 8907 3010 8877
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, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.