Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2008, 2:51 AM CST for Amite County, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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
- Feb 26, 2008, 2:51 AM CST (08:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2008, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Amite County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 25, 2:46 PM CST, 12 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 2:46 PM CST, 12 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 25, 10:01 PM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1001 PM CST MON FEB 25 2008 GMZ530-550-555-570-575-LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077- 080>082-270415- LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND LAKE MAUREPAS- COASTAL WATERS FROM THE SOUTHWEST PASS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER LA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PASCAGOULA MS TO THE SOUTHWEST PASS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM THE SOUTHWEST PASS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO LOWER ATCHAFALAYA RIVER LA FROM 20 TO 60 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PASCAGOULA MS TO THE SOUTHWEST PASS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM 20 TO 60 NM-POINTE COUPEE-WEST FELICIANA- EAST FELICIANA-ST. HELENA-TANGIPAHOA-WASHINGTON-ST. TAMMANY- IBERVILLE-WEST BATON ROUGE-EAST BATON ROUGE-ASCENSION-LIVINGSTON- ASSUMPTION-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-UPPER LAFOURCHE- ST. CHARLES-UPPER JEFFERSON-ORLEANS-UPPER PLAQUEMINES- UPPER ST. BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE-LOWER TERREBONNE- LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER JEFFERSON-LOWER PLAQUEMINES- LOWER ST. BERNARD-WILKINSON-AMITE-PIKE-WALTHALL-PEARL RIVER- HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON- 1001 PM CST MON FEB 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO...SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THE CENTRAL GULF COAST TONIGHT. IN ADVANCE OF THIS FRONT...A LINE OF STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO SWEEP THROUGH THE REGION. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 6 AM. THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS... HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE TIDAL LAKES AND GULF WATERS. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 KNOTS AND SEAS OF 7 TO 10 FEET ARE EXPECTED IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 5:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 26 min |
| Feb 26, 6:30 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 90 min | |
| Feb 26, 5:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.