Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 13, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1991, 9:01 AM CDT for Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1991, 9:01 AM CDT (14:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1991, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lafourche Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 091403 TORNEW LAC057-109-091500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 901 AM CDT THU MAY 9 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN LAFOURCHE PARISH...NORTHERN TERREBONNE PARISH AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. A HELICOPTER PILOT FLYING IN THE HOUMA LOUISIANA AREA REPORTED THREE FUNNEL CLOUDS POSSIBLY TOUCHING THE GROUND. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GET UNDER A! WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, May 9, 5:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-091200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 525 AM CDT THU MAY 9 1991 AT 525 AM CDT...A LARGE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER VERMILION BAY AND ANOTHER WAS ALONG THE COAST SOUTHWEST OF HOUMA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. BOATERS ALONG THE COAST SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER FROM THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS WERE FROM NEAR MORGAN CITY EAST TO BETWEEN GRAND ISLE AND THIBODAUX AND OVER THE COASTAL WATERS FROM VERMILION BAY TO TIMBALIER BAY. SCATTERED PATCHES OF RAIN WERE ALONG THE COAST FROM PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI EAST INTO NORTHWEST FLORIDA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 9, 6:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
LAZ009-091210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 610 AM CDT THU MAY 9 1991 ...A LARGE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD A PART OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED A LARGE...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLAQUEMINE...IN IBERVILLE PARISH...MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD PLAQUEMINE ABOUT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH HALF OF PLAQUEMINE PARISH SHOULD BE ALERT TO THIS STORM FOR THE NEXT HOUR. SINCE MOST BAYOUS AND SMALL RIVERS ARE ALREADY FULL OR AT BANKFULL...THE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. AS ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES IS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA TODAY...PEOPLE ON OR CLOSE TO BAYOUS AND RIVERS SHOULD MONITOR THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO TAKE &QUICK ACTION IF NEEDED.
Special weather statement, May 9, 6:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-091300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 631 AM CDT THU MAY 9 1991 AT 631 AM CDT...A LARGE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORGAN CITY AND ANOTHER JUST SOUTHEAST OF THIBODAUX. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. SOME STREET FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INLAND FROM THE COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN VERMILION BAY AND GRAND ISLE TO JUST SOUTH OF BATON ROUGE AND TO JUST WEST OF NEHW ORLEANS. WIDELY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS WERE IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, May 9, 6:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
LAZ009-091240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 640 AM CDT THU MAY 9 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE APPROACHING PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA... RADAR SHOWED THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG AND GUSTY WIND THAT WAS MOVING TOWARD PLAQUEMINE HAD TURNED MORE EASTWARD AND WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF DONALDSONVILLE. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST IBERVILLE AND ACROSS ASCENSION AND THE SOUTHERN PART OF LIVINGSTON PARISHES FOR THE NEXT HOUR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GRAMERCY AND RESERVE MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MPH TOWARD SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON PARISH. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT THE VERY HEAVY RAIN TO RUNOFF QUICKLY SINCE THE GROUND IS ALREADY WELL SATURATED AND MANY SMALL BAYOUS AND STREAMS ARE SWOLLEN OR AT BANKFULL...FLOODING STREETS AND ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING. AS ANOTHER? ROUND OF RAIN...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES...IS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA TODAY...PEOPLE ON OR CLOSE TO BAYOUS AND RIVERS SHOULD MONITOR THESE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF NEEDED.
Special weather statement, May 9, 8:48 AM CDT, 13 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-091500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 840 AM CDT THU MAY 9 1991 AT 830 AM CDT...A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM JUST NORTH OF BOGALUSA EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND POINTE A LA HACHE AND CONTINUING SOUTHWEST IN COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN VERMILION AND TERREBONNE BAY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE NEW ORLEANS AREA AND NEAR HOUMA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. SOME STREET FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 9, 8:50 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
LAZ008>010-012>014-MSZ010>014-ALZ016-091500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 840 AM CDT THU MAY 9 1991 AT 830 AM CDT...A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM JUST NORTH OF BOGALUSA EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND POINTE A LA HACHE AND CONTINUING SOUTHWEST IN COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN VERMILION AND TERREBONNE BAY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE NEW ORLEANS AREA AND NEAR HOUMA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. SOME STREET FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTOR MS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Landry | 58 min |
| May 9, 11:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 48 min |
| May 9, 11:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Saint Charles | 53 min |
| May 9, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.