Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 6, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2000, 4:55 AM CST for Hancock County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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
- Mar 27, 2000, 4:55 AM CST (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2000, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 5:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Vidalia, MS | A tree was blown down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 271056 TORNEW MSC045-271130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 455 AM CST MON MAR 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 530 AM CST * AT 455 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF KILN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... KILN BY 505 AM DIAMONDHEAD BY 510 AM GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL( RELAY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.