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Tornado Warning 79, NWS New Orleans, LA

July 6, 2005Jackson County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2005, 2:44 AM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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: Jul 6, 2005, 2:44 AM CDT (07:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2005, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jackson County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 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
Jul 5, 11:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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.

000 
WFUS54 KLIX 060744
TORLIX
MSC059-060815-
/O.NEW.KLIX.TO.W.0079.050706T0744Z-050706T0815Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
244 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS

* UNTIL 315 AM CDT

* AT 240 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF GAUTIER...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PASCAGOULA...
  MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  VANCLEAVE BY 255 AM CDT

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3027 8879 3029 8858 3091 8863 3089 8889

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 1:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison	3 hr
Jul 6, 2:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jackson	3 hr
Jul 6, 4:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison	3 hr
Jul 6, 5:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Harrison	36 min
Jul 6, 5:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jackson	3 hr

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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.