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Tornado Warning 29, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 7, 2001Hancock County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2001, 5:24 PM CDT for Hancock 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2001, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 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, 10.4 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: 1900 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 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 072225
TORNEW

MSC045-072300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
524 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 519 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES         
  SOUTHWEST OF WAVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 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 EN1FORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	52 min
Jun 7, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	52 min
Jun 7, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	29 min
Jun 7, 10:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	53 min
Jun 7, 2:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	3 hr

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.