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Tornado Warning 90, NWS New Orleans, LA

December 23, 2002Washington Parish, Louisiana; Pearl River County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2002, 7:38 PM CST for Washington Parish, Louisiana; Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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 23, 2002, 7:38 PM CST (01:38 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2002, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Washington Parish, LA, Pearl River 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
Dec 23, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 658 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 957 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

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

515 
WFUS54 KLIX 240138
TORNEW
LAC117-MSC109-240215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
738 PM CST MON DEC 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOGALUSA
  PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF POPLARVILLE

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 737 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO  ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST 
OF BOGALUSA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   POPLARVILLE AT 800 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 3080 8995 3063 8989 3076 8927 3098 8934

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 7:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	40 min
Dec 23, 7:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	24 min
Dec 24, 12:27 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		63 min
Dec 24, 12:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	49 min
Dec 24, 1:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	53 min
Dec 24, 3:36 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		54 min
Dec 24, 3:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Assumption	24 min
Dec 24, 5:11 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		49 min
Dec 24, 5:57 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		2 hr
Dec 24, 5:57 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		2 hr
Dec 23, 8:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	16 min
Dec 24, 6:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison	27 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.