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Tornado Warning 91, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 8:42 AM CDT for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 63 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
- Aug 29, 2005, 8:42 AM CDT (13:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pearl River 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KLIX 291343
TORLIX
MSC109-291445-
/O.NEW.KLIX.TO.W.0091.050829T1342Z-050829T1445Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
842 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...POPLARVILLE...PICAYUNE
* UNTIL 945 AM CDT
* AT 838 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HURRICANE KATRINA EYEWALL APPROACHING THE
SOUTHERN PORTION OF PEARL RIVER COUNTY.
* THE ONSET OF DESTRUCTIVE WINDS WITH GUSTS OF 100 TO 120 MPH WILL
BEGIN SOON. THESE DESTRUCTIVE WINDS WILL PRODUCE WIND DAMAGE SIMILAR
TO A TORNADO. SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
AND REMAIN IN YOUR SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE EYEWALL PASSES.
LAT...LON 3062 8980 3043 8969 3053 8955 3066 8954
3066 8933 3091 8934 3084 8981
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 3:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 3:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 46 min |
| Aug 29, 7:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 9:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 55 min |
| Aug 29, 10:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River, Walthall | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River, Walthall | 65 min |
| Aug 29, 12:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 12:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 4:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River | 4 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.