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Tornado Warning 33, NWS New Orleans, LA

June 30, 2003Harrison County, Jackson County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 2003, 8:12 PM CDT for Harrison County, Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 30, 2003, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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
Jun 30, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

957 
WFUS54 KLIX 010112
TORNEW
MSC047-059-010145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
811 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ST. MARTIN...BILOXI
  JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 805 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR ST ANDREWS EAST 
  OF OCEAN SPRINGS. A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION INDICATED BY 
  RADAR WILL MOVE ONSHORE AT THE HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTY LINE   
  NEAR OCEAN SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.

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 3038 8900 3034 8879 3103 8859 3107 8885

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	31 min
Jun 30, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock	31 min
Jun 30, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison	25 min
Jun 30, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	26 min
Jun 30, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	29 min

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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.