Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 8, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1989, 7:25 AM CDT for East Baton Rouge Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1989, 7:25 AM CDT (12:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1989, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:25 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | East Baton Rouge, LA | |
| Jun 8, 7:43 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Livingston, LA | |
| Jun 8, 7:57 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Livingston, LA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 2984 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.9
- Supercell composite
- 26.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBTR 081227
TORBTR
LAC033-063-081330-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
725 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES...
IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
...SOUTHERN EAST BATON ROUGE...LIVINGSTON
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF
INTERSTATE 10 AND SEIGEN LANE IN SOUTHERN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH.
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
THIS WAS REPORTED BY TROOP A OF THE LOUISIANA STATE POLICE AT 725AM
CDT.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE P!ATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 340 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST INTO SOUTH MISSISSIPPI FROM HATTIESBURG EXTENDING SOUTH THROUGH GULFPORT AND INTO THE COASTAL WATERS OF MISSISSIPPI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. ALSO LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 350 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS E XTENDING SOUTH FROM HATTIESBURG TO GULFPORT. ISOLATED SHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED FROM NATCHEZ TO THE VICINITY OF ALEXANDRIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 400 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... RADAR SHOWED AND AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI FROM LAUREL TO GULFPORT MISSISSIPPI. ALSO LIGHT RAIN HAS DEVELOPED NEAR MC COMB MISSISSIPPI EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NEAR BATON ROUGE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 435 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS 20 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE ALABAMA EXTENDING SOUTH INTO MOBILE SOUND AND 30 MILES OFFSHORE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ALSO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DSEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND BATON ROUGE EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO BETWEEN NATCHEZ AND TYLERTOWN MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 540 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN AMITE AND KENTWOOD ...10 MILES WEST OF HATTIESBURG MISSISSIPPI...AND 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOBILE ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Jun 8, 6:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 615 AM CDT THU JUN 8 1989 ATTN SELS... 200 AM CDT...WIND GUSTS OF 66 KNOTS WAS REPORTED MIDDLE OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. 225 AM CDT...WIND GUSTS OF 41 KNOTS WAS REPORTED EAST PORTION OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, Livingston | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 6:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 6:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 7:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Iberville, West Baton Rouge | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 8:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 8:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 8:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Livingston | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 8:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 8:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 9:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Iberville | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 9:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 9:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Saint Martin, St. Mary | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 10:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 10:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Bernard | 63 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.