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Tornado Warning 48, NWS New Orleans, LA

October 31, 2015Pearl River County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2015, 4:44 PM CDT for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 31, 2015, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Pearl River County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 31, 4:45 PM CDT	TORNADO	10 Ene Mcneil, MS	MOBILE HOME DESTROYED 7 MCNEILL-MCHENRY ROAD
Oct 31, 5:23 PM CDT	TORNADO 1	10 Sse Poplarville, MS	NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOUND TORNADO DAMAGE BEGINNING JUST WEST OF HIGHWAY 53 AND THEN TRACKING EAST-NORTHEAST ACROSS HIGHWAY 53 FOR ABOUT A HALF MILE. MULTIPLE LARGE TREE LIMBS WERE DOWN...A FEW TREES AND WOODEN POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED...AND A MOBILE HOME AND SEV

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 31, 11:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

260 
WFUS54 KLIX 312144
TORLIX
MSC109-312215-
/O.NEW.KLIX.TO.W.0048.151031T2144Z-151031T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
444 PM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
    
* AT 444 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF POPLARVILLE...MOVING EAST
  AT 45 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  EAST CENTRAL PEARL RIVER COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

THIS CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND
WIDESPREAD SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE
TORNADO. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3069 8934 3065 8952 3078 8952 3088 8934
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 248DEG 37KT 3073 8944 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

CAB

1 follow-up statement

483 
WWUS54 KLIX 312206
SVSLIX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
506 PM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

MSC109-312216-
/O.EXP.KLIX.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-151031T2215Z/
PEARL RIVER MS-
506 PM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL PEARL RIVER COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3069 8934 3065 8952 3078 8952 3088 8934
TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 248DEG 37KT 3073 8944 

$$

CAB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 31, 11:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pearl River	57 hr
Oct 31, 11:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pearl River	60 hr
Oct 31, 12:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Wilkinson	24 min
Oct 31, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	32 min
Oct 31, 2:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	24 min
Oct 31, 2:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	39 min
Oct 31, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	23 min
Oct 31, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River	32 min
Oct 31, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Jackson	46 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.