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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 28, 2004Pearl River County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2004, 3:14 PM CDT for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 16 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 2004, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pearl River County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2004-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2007 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2004-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2007 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXSaint Charles36 min
Aug 28, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXLafourche, Terrebonne33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.