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Tornado Warning 69, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Dec 28, 2015, 4:35 AM CST for Pearl River County, Walthall County, Mississippi; Washington Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 25 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
- Dec 28, 2015, 4:35 AM CST (10:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2015, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Washington Parish, LA, Pearl River County, MS, Walthall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2:23 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
003
WFUS54 KLIX 281035
TORLIX
LAC117-MSC109-147-281100-
/O.NEW.KLIX.TO.W.0069.151228T1035Z-151228T1100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
435 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...
SOUTHEASTERN WALTHALL COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHWESTERN PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 500 AM CST
* AT 435 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER VARNADO...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF BOGALUSA...
MOVING NORTH AT 40 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
NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON PARISH...SOUTHEASTERN WALTHALL AND
NORTHWESTERN PEARL RIVER COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...ANGIE.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3100 8983 3100 8967 3081 8981 3086 8991
3108 8987 3107 8983
TIME...MOT...LOC 1035Z 200DEG 37KT 3090 8984
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN
$$
CAB1 follow-up statement
953
WWUS54 KLIX 281044
SVSLIX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
444 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015
MSC109-147-281054-
/O.CAN.KLIX.TO.W.0069.000000T0000Z-151228T1100Z/
WALTHALL MS-PEARL RIVER MS-
444 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WALTHALL AND NORTHWESTERN
PEARL RIVER COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST FOR SOUTHEASTERN
LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3100 8973 3085 8981 3086 8989 3100 8986
TIME...MOT...LOC 1044Z 200DEG 37KT 3099 8980
$$
LAC117-281100-
/O.CON.KLIX.TO.W.0069.000000T0000Z-151228T1100Z/
WASHINGTON LA-
444 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON PARISH...
AT 444 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR SANDY HOOK...MOVING NORTH 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.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
VARNADO AND ANGIE.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3100 8973 3085 8981 3086 8989 3100 8986
TIME...MOT...LOC 1044Z 200DEG 37KT 3099 8980
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
CABThe office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 12:00 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LIX | Amite, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson | 8 hr |
| Dec 28, 1:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 25 min |
| Dec 28, 2:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 28 min |
| Dec 28, 2:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 36 min |
| Dec 28, 2:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite | 10 min |
| Dec 28, 2:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite | 37 min |
| Dec 28, 3:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite | 24 min |
| Dec 28, 4:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 31 min |
| Dec 28, 5:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 59 min |
| Dec 28, 6:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 29 min |
| Dec 28, 7:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Jackson | 63 min |
| Dec 28, 12:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 57 min |
| Dec 28, 1:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 1:46 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 89 min | |
| Dec 28, 1:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Iberville | 24 min |
| Dec 28, 1:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Iberville | 50 min |
| Dec 28, 2:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 2:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston | 28 min |
| Dec 28, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston | 38 min |
| Dec 28, 2:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena | 47 min |
| Dec 28, 2:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist | 40 min |
| Dec 28, 2:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena | 49 min |
| Dec 28, 2:49 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 26 min |
| Dec 28, 2:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 67 min |
| Dec 28, 3:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa | 57 min |
| Dec 28, 3:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 40 min |
| Dec 28, 3:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Saint John the Baptist | 43 min |
| Dec 28, 3:20 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 55 min | |
| Dec 28, 3:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa | 32 min |
| Dec 28, 3:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 27 min |
| Dec 28, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 58 min |
| Dec 28, 4:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 30 min |
| Dec 28, 4:10 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Jefferson, Orleans | 65 min |
| Dec 28, 4:11 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 64 min | |
| Dec 28, 4:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 32 min |
| Dec 28, 4:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany | 28 min |
| Dec 28, 4:51 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 24 min | |
| Dec 28, 5:09 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 66 min | |
| Dec 28, 6:07 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 53 min | |
| Dec 28, 7:01 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 89 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.