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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS New Orleans, LA

August 21, 2026Amite County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2026, 2:50 PM CDT for Amite County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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: Aug 21, 2026, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2026, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Amite County, MS

The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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
Aug 21, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 1263 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -235 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Aug 21, 10:50 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more	33 hr
Aug 21, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		83 min
Aug 21, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Tammany	29 min
Aug 21, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	46 min
Aug 21, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Tangipahoa	28 min
Aug 21, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	31 min
Aug 21, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	42 min
Aug 21, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena	52 min
Aug 21, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	35 min
Aug 21, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines	118 min
Aug 21, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Saint Tammany	27 min
Aug 21, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans	44 min
Aug 21, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	36 min
Aug 21, 3:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans	3 hr
Aug 21, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	48 min
Aug 21, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LIX	Washington	38 min
Aug 21, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Livingston	40 min
Aug 21, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	32 min
Aug 21, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa	43 min
Aug 21, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	46 min
Aug 21, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	41 min
Aug 21, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		92 min
Aug 21, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	32 min
Aug 21, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint James	33 min
Aug 21, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	17 min
Aug 21, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Orleans	24 min
Aug 21, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Bernard	31 min
Aug 20, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Walthall	47 min
Aug 20, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	68 min
Aug 20, 9:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Walthall	28 min
Aug 21, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Pike	44 min
Aug 21, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LIX	Hancock	27 min
Aug 21, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock	45 min
Aug 21, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike	49 min
Aug 21, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Harrison	51 min
Aug 21, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LIX	Walthall	39 min
Aug 21, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	33 min
Aug 21, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LIX	Pearl River	43 min
Aug 21, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	38 min
Aug 21, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	50 min
Aug 21, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Pike, Wilkinson	39 min
Aug 21, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	18 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.