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Tornado Warning 63, NWS New Orleans, LA

November 24, 2000Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2000, 9:41 AM CST for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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: Nov 24, 2000, 9:41 AM CST (15:41 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2000, 10:15 AM CST
In force: 34 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), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 24, 9:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 421 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 552 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLIX 241542
TORNEW

MSC047-241615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
941 AM CST FRI NOV 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1015 AM CST

* AT 935 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LYMAN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF
  LONG BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SUCCESS AND SAUCIER.

SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY
OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM.

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

LAT...LON 3056 8932 3047 8913 3061 8892 3065 8920

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 8:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison	35 min
Nov 24, 9:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Harrison	30 min
Nov 24, 9:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jackson	27 min
Nov 24, 11:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jackson	39 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.