SMWLIX
The National Weather Service in New Orleans has issued a
* Special Marine Warning for…
Coastal Waters from Stake Island LA to Southwest Pass of the
Mississippi River from 20 to 60 nm…
Coastal waters from Pascagoula Mississippi to Stake Island
Louisiana out 20 to 60 NM…
* Until 315 AM CST.
* At 211 AM CST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing
waterspouts was located 59 nm east of Pilottown, moving northeast
at 50 knots.
HAZARD…Waterspouts and wind gusts 34 knots or greater.
SOURCE…Radar.
IMPACT…Waterspouts can quickly form and capsize boats…damage
vessels and oil rigs…and create suddenly higher waves.
Small craft could be damaged in briefly higher winds and
suddenly higher waves.
* The severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly open waters.