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Tornado Warning 85, NWS New Orleans, LA

December 19, 2002Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 19, 2002, 12:51 PM CST for Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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: Dec 19, 2002, 12:51 PM CST (18:51 UTC)
Expired: Dec 19, 2002, 1:15 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 19, 9:35 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Dec 19, 11:40 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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: 668 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 304 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 417 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

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

498 
WFUS54 KLIX 191851
TORNEW
MSC045-047-191915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1251 PM CST THU DEC 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WAVELAND...DIAMONDHEAD...BAY ST.
  LOUIS
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LONG BEACH...GULFPORT

* UNTIL 115 PM CST

* AT 1247 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WAVELAND   
  ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   LONG BEACH AT 105 PM CST
   LYMAN...GULFPORT AT 110 PM CST

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 3020 8943 3031 8951 3068 8888 3044 8888
          3031 8924 3031 8928 3035 8927 3038 8931
          3031 8931

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 19, 10:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	42 min
Dec 19, 12:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	59 min
Dec 19, 12:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison	25 min
Dec 19, 1:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	27 min
Dec 19, 2:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	26 min
Dec 19, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River	64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.