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Tornado Warning 52, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 6:40 PM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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
- Oct 13, 2001, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pascagoula, MS | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines, blew out windows in three buildings, damaged the pump awning and door of a gas station, and destroyed the crossing arms at two railroad crossings. A large tree limb damaged a car that it fell on. The |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
861 WFUS54 KLIX 132340 TORNEW MSC059-140030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 640 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PASCAGOULA...OCEAN SPRINGS...MOSS POINT AND ESCATAWPA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 635 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH OF OCEAN SPRINGS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 11:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike, Walthall | 25 min |
| Oct 13, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 60 min |
| Oct 13, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 56 min |
| Oct 13, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 66 min |
| Oct 13, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 66 min |
| Oct 13, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 45 min |
| Oct 13, 3:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 60 min |
| Oct 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 60 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.