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Tornado Warning 50, NWS New Orleans, LA

October 3, 2002Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 3:48 PM CDT for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 22 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 3, 2002, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 22 days
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
Oct 3, 9:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 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

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The text

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

330 
WFUS54 KLIX 032048
TORNEW
MSC047-032115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
345 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 340 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH
  OF BILOXI...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER RURAL HARRISON COUNTY

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 3, 10:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	29 min
Oct 3, 11:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	22 days
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, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison	22 days
Oct 3, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison	22 days

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.