1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 22, 1:00 PM CST, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 200 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2005 .DISCUSSION... ATMOSPHERE IS RELATIVELY UNSTABLE WITH 2.0 INCHES OF PRECIPITABLE WATER AND WARMING INTO THE MID 90S. WHAT WE LACK IS A SHORT WAVE TO INCITE CONVECTION. A WEA VORTICITY TROUGH LIES OVER THE SOUTHWEST LA COASTAL WATERS AND EXTENDS NORTHEAST OVER SOUTHEAST LA. THE 500MB RIDGE WILL RETARD DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON WHEN OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM CONVECTION OFF THE COAST INTERACT WITH WEAK LAKE WIND BOUNDARIES. WILL MENTION A CHANCE OF EARLY EVENING CONVECTION. THINGS GET BETTER FOR TUESDAY...ETA AND AVN MODELS STRONGLY DISAGREE ON THE THREATR OF AFTERNOON CONVECTION WITH THE ETA MUCH DRIER THAN THE AVN/GFS. WILL MAKE A COMPROMISE AND KEEP SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THE OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS NORTH OF THE CWA THROUGH THURSDAY. WITH RIDGE REMAINING IN PLACE THRU FRIDAY...CHANCE OF ORGANIZED STRONG CONVECTION IS LIMITED. NEXT CHANCE OF A TROPICAL SYSTEM ENTERING THE GULF IS EARLY NEXT WEEK. AVN MODEL SHOWS THE REMANANTS OF A TROPICAL WAVE MOVING WEST UNDER THE BERMUDA RIDGE TO EAST FLORIDA FRIDAY. SURFACE BASED LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS THE FLORIDA KEYS FRIDAY NIGHT AND INTO THE MIDDLE GULD SUNDAY...28 AUG. AVN SHOWS THE TRACK AROUND THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE BERMUDA RIDGE TOWARDS LA ON MONDAY. WILL AHVE TO WAIT AND SEE HOW THE MODELS FLIP-FLOP ON THIS TRACK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MCB 75 93 75 92 / 20 50 20 50 BTR 76 94 77 93 / 20 50 20 50 MSY 78 95 78 93 / 20 50 20 50 GPT 93 76 92 77 / 20 50 20 50 && .LIX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... LA...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1030 AM CDT MON AUG 22 2005 CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-231100- AMITE-ASCENSION-ASSUMPTION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-HANCOCK- HARRISON-IBERVILLE-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON- LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE- ORLEANS-PEARL RIVER-PIKE-POINTE COUPEE-ST CHARLES-ST HELENA-ST JAMES- ST JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST TAMMANY-TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON- UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-UPPER ST BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE- WALTHALL-WASHINGTON-WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA-WILKINSON- 1030 AM CDT MON AUG 22 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG AND PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS RESULTING IN THE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. HEAT... HIGH TEMPERATURES AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HEAT INDEX READINGS OF 105 TO 110 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WILL PROVIDE SOME RELIEF FROM THE HEAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 622 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2005 MSZ081-230030- HARRISON- 622 PM CDT MON AUG 22 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST STONE COUNTY...MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHEAST HARRISON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI... AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN MCHENRY AND BEATRICE MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHWEST NEAR 15 MPH INTO NORTHEAST HARRISON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF HOWISON...AND SAUCIER NOT TO MENTION AREAS OF THE DE SOTO NATIONAL FOREST. EXPECT WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH 730 PM. SOME PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. 8
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was observed just southeast of Poplarville.
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Every storm in Mississippi in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, August 2005
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