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Tornado Warning 55, NWS New Orleans, LA

November 24, 2001Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 1:30 PM CST for Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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: Nov 24, 2001, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 1625 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 12.7

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The text

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

848 
WFUS54 KLIX 241929
TORNEW
MSC045-MSC047-242000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
130 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  NORTHWEST HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 130 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST 
OF KILN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE COMMUNITIES OF SELLERS AND LIZANA 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
Nov 24, 11:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	36 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.