Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 93, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 6:18 AM CST for Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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 24, 2002, 6:18 AM CST (12:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 6:45 AM CST
- In force
- 27 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), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:18 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 24, 2:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 1699 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
978 WFUS54 KLIX 241218 TORNEW MSC045-047-241245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 617 AM CST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DIAMONDHEAD HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LONG BEACH...GULFPORT...BILOXI * UNTIL 645 AM CST * AT 613 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF DIAMONDHEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LONG BEACH AT 625 AM CST LYMAN...GULFPORT AT 630 AM CST BILOXI AT 640 AM CST PEA SIZED HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AT 613 AM CST ON I-10. 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 3045 8956 3028 8947 3041 8889 3068 8893
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 7:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 24 min |
| Dec 23, 7:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 37 min |
| Dec 23, 8:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 16 min |
| Dec 24, 1:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 53 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002
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.