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Tornado Warning 20, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 4, 2001Pearl River County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2001, 6:02 PM CDT for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 15 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: Jun 4, 2001, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2001, 6:17 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pearl River County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 3112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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.

000 
WFUS54 KLIX 042304
TORNEW
MSC109-042315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
602 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWEST PORTION OF PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 617 PM CDT

* AT 552 PM CDT...FIRE FIGHTERS IN THE CROSSROADS AREA OF PEARL RIVER 
COUNTY SPOTTED A TORNADO AT TREE TOP LEVEL ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF 
CROSSROADS ABOUT 553 PM CDT MOVING NORTH AT 25 TO 30 MPH.

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 THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAPY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3095 8974 3096 8961 3137 8958 3135 8980

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike	31 min
Jun 4, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	52 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.