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Tornado Warning 14, NWS New Orleans, LA

April 8, 2002Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2002, 4:34 PM CDT for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 86 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2002, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harrison County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 8, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 454 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 10.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLIX 082134
TORNEW
MSC047-082200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
431 PM CDT MON APR 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...GULFPORT...BILOXI
  
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WATERSPOUTS AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
  TORNADOES ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GULFPORT...MOVING 
  EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  THE CASINOS AND PORT OF GULFPORT IS IN THE PATH OF THESE 
  WATERSPOUTS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES.

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.

LAT...LON 3026 8905 3043 8912 3050 8888 3036 8880
          3040 8897 3035 8909

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 5:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	48 min
Apr 8, 6:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike	39 min
Apr 8, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	62 min
Apr 8, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River, Walthall	62 min
Apr 8, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock	56 min
Apr 8, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock	97 min
Apr 8, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	37 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.