Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 28, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2005, 11:31 AM CDT for Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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
- Apr 6, 2005, 11:31 AM CDT (16:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2005, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 6, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLIX 061631 TORLIX MSC045-047-061700- /O.NEW.KLIX.TO.W.0028.050406T1631Z-050406T1700Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1131 AM CDT WED APR 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WAVELAND...DIAMONDHEAD...BAY ST. LOUIS HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LONG BEACH...GULFPORT * UNTIL NOON CDT * AT 1127 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WAVELAND... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BAY ST. LOUIS AND 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DIAMONDHEAD BY 1140 AM CDT PASS CHRISTIAN BY 1150 AM CDT LONG BEACH AND 8 MILES WEST OF GULFPORT BY NOON CDT 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3031 8953 3015 8943 3033 8901 3053 8914 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KLIX 061640 SVSLIX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1139 AM CDT WED APR 6 2005 MSC045-047-061700- /O.CON.KLIX.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-050406T1700Z/ HANCOCK MS-HARRISON MS- 1139 AM CDT WED APR 6 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL NOON CDT FOR HARRISON AND HANCOCK COUNTIES... AT 1133 AM CDT...HANCOCK COUNTY EMERGENY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO DAMAGE ROOFS OF HOMES AND BUSINESSES NEAR WAVELAND. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WAVELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PASS CHRISTIAN BY 1150 AM CDT LONG BEACH BY NOON CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3031 8953 3015 8943 3033 8901 3053 8914 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 6:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 7:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 8:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 22 min |
| Apr 6, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Apr 6, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 32 min |
| Apr 6, 9:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 35 min |
| Apr 6, 10:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 63 min |
| Apr 6, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 12:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 34 min |
| Apr 6, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 25 min |
| Apr 6, 1:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 27 min |
| Apr 6, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 25 min |
| Apr 6, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 30 min |
| Apr 6, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 22 min |
| Apr 6, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 30 min |
| Apr 6, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 20 min |
| Apr 6, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 15 min |
| Apr 6, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 16 min |
| Apr 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 34 min |
| Apr 6, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 6, 6:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jackson | 3 hr |
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.