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Tornado Warning 34, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 11, 2001Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 4:28 AM CDT for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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 11, 2001, 4:28 AM CDT (09:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2001, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Harrison County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 877 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -75 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.

542 
WFUS54 KLIX 110930
TORNEW
MSC047-111000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
428 AM CDT MON JUN 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BILOXI...GULFPORT...LONG BEACH

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 425 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PASS 
CHRISTIAN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTH EAST AT 30 MPH.

THE CITIES OF GULFPORT AND BILOXI ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

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 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 11, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock	55 min
Jun 11, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jackson	61 min
Jun 11, 2:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	3 hr
Jun 11, 3:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison, Jackson	3 hr
Jun 11, 4:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	30 min
Jun 11, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jackson	63 min
Jun 11, 5:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison	36 min
Jun 11, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	60 min
Jun 11, 5:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	30 min
Jun 11, 5:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	38 min
Jun 11, 6:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	36 min
Jun 11, 6:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jackson	95 min
Jun 11, 6:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	31 min
Jun 11, 9:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	19 min

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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.