Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 16, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 1992, 9:14 AM CDT for Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1992, 9:14 AM CDT (14:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1992, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pointe Coupee Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 KBTR 261419 COR TORBTR LAC077-261445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED....CORRECTION ON STORM MOVEMENT... TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA 914 AM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA ...SOUTHERN POINTE COUPEE PARISH THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR ROUGON LOUISIANA MOVING TO THE WEST.. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. 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, Aug 26, 8:18 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
LAZ010-013-014-261515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 817 AM CDT WED AUG 26 1992 ...RAINBANDS ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE ANDREW MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... AT 815 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM KENTWOOD TRHOUGH MANDEVILLE TO EAST NEW ORLEANS AND GRAND ISLE. THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO....WASHINGTON EAST ST TAMMANY EAST ORLEANS ST BERNARD AND PLAQUEMINE PARISHES. WIND GUSTS TO NEAR HURRICANE FORCE AND HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS CAN EXPECTED AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH PARTS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA.
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, 3:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Charles | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 8:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 57 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.