Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 2003, 9:58 PM CST for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 17 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
- Mar 6, 2003, 9:58 PM CST (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2003, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pearl River County, MS
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
960 WUUS54 KLIX 070358 SVRNEW MSC109-070415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 958 PM CST THU MAR 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF POPLARVILLE * UNTIL 1015 PM CST * AT 955 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF POPLARVILLE NEAR MCNEILL... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL...STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 3077 8967 3061 8956 3088 8904 3105 8917 $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 6, 4:30 PM CST, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 4:30 PM CST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 430 PM CST THU MAR 6 2003 FYI FOR SURROUNDING OFFICES AND MEDIA...GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED IN ASCENSION PARISH WITH 54 MAX VIL AND 39KFT TOP. VIL DENSITY4.1. THE THREAT WILL BE WITH US FOR AWHILE AS AIRMASS ABOVE 3KFT IS VERY UNSTABLE WITH STRONG VERTICAL VEERING AND 100+KT JET STREAK MOVING ACROSS. HEAVY RAIN AND COLD AIR FUNNELS ALSO A CONCERN. BELIEVE 3000 FT STABLE LAYER WILL PRECLUDE WIND GUSTS AND TORNADOES BUT WILL WATCH CLOSELY AS SEVERAL MESOS ARE NOTED ALOFT. 24 ...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... THE FRONT ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA JUST SOUTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH TO NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY. MODELS INDICATE THE AIATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN WET THROUGH TONIGHT BEFORE BEGINNING TO DRY OUT FRIDAY MORNING. UPPER TROF OVER WEST TEXAS WILL MOVE EAST AND WEAKEN AS IT APPROACHES THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. DYNAMICS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BE WEAK AS IT CROSSES THE AREA. THE JET IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN NORTH OF OF THE AREA. SURFACE WINDS WILL BE NORTHEASTERLY THROUGH SATURDAY THEN BECOMING SOUTHEAST ON SUNDAY. PRECIPITATION COULD LINGER INTO THE EARLY HOURS FRIDAY MORNING ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BEFORE ENDING. COOLER AIR BEHIND THE FRONT IS SPREADING INTO THE AREA. SHOULD SEE TEMPERATURES WARMING AGAIN ON FRIDAY. NEXT FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA LATE TUESDAY AND EARLY WEDNESDAY. MCB 49/73/50/77 6100 BTR 50/73/50/78 6100 MSY 57/70/55/76 7200 GPT 56/68/52/73 8300 .NEW...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 23
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 6, 11:00 AM CST, 10 hours 58 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-071200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1100 AM CST THU MAR 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EXTREME SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY LINGERING DURING OVERNIGHT. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT AND A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. RIVER FLOODING... SEVERAL RIVERS REMAIN IN HIGH FLOW OR IN FLOOD. REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. 23
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 6, 8:51 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS, LA
851 PM CST THU MAR 6 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0416 PM DARROW LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/06/03 ASCENSION REPORTED BY FIRE
DEPARTMENT. VEHICLES
DAMAGED. ALSO IN SORRENTO.
0433 PM 3 W FRANKLINTON LA .75 INCH HAIL
03/06/03 WASHINGTON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. HIGHWAY 10 AND
HIGHWAY 440.
0557 PM PIGEON LA .75 INCH HAIL
03/06/03 IBERVILLE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0600 PM WHITE CASTLE LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/06/03 IBERVILLE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0620 PM ST AMANT LA OTHER
03/06/03 ASCENSION .375 INCH HAIL. REPORTED
BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0632 PM MAUREPAS LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/06/03 LIVINGSTON REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT.
0648 PM 4 SE PONCHATOULA LA 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/06/03 TANGIPAHOA REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVER. COVERED GROUND.
0715 PM BUSH LA .88 INCH HAIL
03/06/03 ST. TAMMANY REPORTED BY WIFE OF NWS
EMPLOYEE AT BUSH GYM.
RJRLocal storm report, Mar 6, 9:23 PM CST, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS, LA
923 PM CST THU MAR 6 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0850 PM DONALDSONVILLE LA 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/06/03 ASCENSION REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
DEPARTMENT. ALSO IN BRUSLY
MCCALL AREA ON THE
IBERVILLE-ASCENSION PARISH
LINE.
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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.