Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 42, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 4:19 AM CST for Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 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
- Nov 24, 2004, 4:19 AM CST (10:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 26 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), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 2:50 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 866 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 241019 TORLIX MSC045-047-241045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 419 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 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 * UNTIL 445 AM CST * AT 418 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF DIAMONDHEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF LYMAN BY 440 AM CST SAUCIER BY 445 AM CST SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3052 8949 3033 8935 3050 8894 3077 8907 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 12:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 1:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 20 min |
| Nov 24, 2:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 15 min |
| Nov 24, 2:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 59 min |
| Nov 24, 2:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 2:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 58 min |
| Nov 24, 2:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 40 min |
| Nov 24, 2:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 53 min |
| Nov 24, 3:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 3:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 37 min |
| Nov 24, 3:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 37 min |
| Nov 24, 4:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 4:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 61 min |
| Nov 24, 4:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 4:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 58 min |
| Nov 24, 5:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 50 min |
| Nov 24, 5:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 50 min |
| Nov 24, 6:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.