Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 14, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 1992, 3:31 AM CDT for Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1992, 3:31 AM CDT (08:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1992, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Charles Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 260830 TORNEW LAC089-260900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 331 AM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ...ST.CHARLES PARISH AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. AT 230 AM CDT THE ST CHARLES OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS A FUNNEL CLOUD AND LOUD ROARING NOISE IN THE WILLOW DALE SUBDIVISION OF LULING. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A BAND OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA MOVING NORTHWEST ABOUT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH 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, Aug 26, 12:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
LAZ010-013-014-260630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1250 AM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 CORRECTION....THE 1210 AM REPORT OF 20 INJURIES CAUSED BY A TORNADO IN MORGAN CITY MENTIONED IN THE 1230 AM CDT HURRICANE LOCAL ACTION STATEMENT IS A MISTAKE. THIS REPORT CAME FROM A HAM RADIO OPERATOR LOCATED IN MORGAN CITY. WE REGET THIS ERROR. LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS REPORT THAT 20 PEOPLE WERE HOSPITALIZED WITH INJURIES FROMD THE TORNADO THAT OCCURED IN LAPLACE LA AT 927 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Saint Tammany | 25 min |
| Aug 26, 2:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Iberville | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 8:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 9:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 9:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 10:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 66 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.