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Tornado Warning 47, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 11:28 AM CDT for Hancock County, Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 22 days. 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 3, 2002, 11:28 AM CDT (16:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 days
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hancock County, MS, Pearl River County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Crossroads, MS | A weak tornado touched down downing trees. |
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 3, 9:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 855 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 407 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Terrebonne | 13 hr |
| Oct 3, 1:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Oct 3, 4:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 7 hr |
| Oct 3, 4:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Charles | 7 hr |
| Oct 3, 4:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 8 hr |
| Oct 3, 6:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 8:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 9:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Assumption | 3 hr |
| Oct 3, 10:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston, Tangipahoa | 29 min |
| Oct 3, 10:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 34 min |
| Oct 3, 10:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 6 days |
| Oct 3, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 22 days |
| Oct 3, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 22 days |
| Oct 3, 10:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 29 min |
| Oct 3, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 22 days |
| Oct 3, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 22 days |
| Oct 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 22 days |
| Oct 3, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 22 days |
| Oct 3, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 22 days |
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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.